This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 110: Alas, 'Tis True, I Have Gone Here And There that begins with:
Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there,
And made myself a motley to the view,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeeeeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 0111111111 1111010001 1111111011 1110000101 1100111111 0111011101 1101110101 1101111101 1101111111 1101110101 1101011101 0101011101 11110111001 10011111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 613
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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