This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 122: Thy Gift, Thy Tables, Are Within My Brain that begins with:
Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbbbbcdcdee
- 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: 1111010111 11000010100 1101110101 011110010000 1101111111 1100110001 11010100101 0110110101 1101011111 1111011101 1101001111 0111010111 0111100101 0001100001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 578
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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