This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 115: Those Lines That I Before Have Writ Do Lie that begins with:
Those lines that I before have writ do lie,
Even those that said I could not love you dearer;... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXcXXXXXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111011111 101111111110 1111011101 11111100110 110011100100 1011110101 1101010101 011100101010 0111001100 111111011110 11110101000 1000110001 1001111111 0111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 662
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; i is repeated.
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