This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 111: O, For My Sake Do You With Fortune Chide that begins with:

O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide,
The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababaaaacdcdee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111110101 0101001101 1011011101 1101110101 1101110101 1111110001 010101011 1011111001 1101010101 10010111010 1100110101 11010001010 10111111011 101110001011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 600
  • Average number of words per stanza: 110
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.

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