This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 144: Two Loves I Have, Of Comfort And Despair that begins with:
Two loves I have, of comfort and despair,
Which like two spirits do suggest me still:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbccbcbdd
- 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: 1111010101 1111010111 0101000111 01010010101 01110111110 1011010011 11011100010 1001000011 1101110011 0111110101 1101011011 1111000101 1011111101 11110101011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 580
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; my, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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