This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 141: In Faith, I Do Not Love Thee With Mine Eyes that begins with:
In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes,
For they in thee a thousand errors note;... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcddededd
- 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: 0111111011 1101010101 1111111101 1001010101 111101101010 1101001101 111101000010 01010010101 1111111101 0111010101 1101010001 1111110100 1011111111 1111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 622
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; in, nor, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nor is repeated.
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