This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 118: Like As To Make Our Appetite More Keen that begins with:
Like as to make our appetite more keen
With eager compounds we our palate urge,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcXcdedeff
- 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: 1101110111 0101011101 1001110001 1100110111 1011010111010 01010011110 11011101010 00011111110 11000110101 0110110101 1101000101 1101011101 1111110101 1101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 612
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, to, our, of are repeated.
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