This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 147: My Love Is As A Fever, Longing Still that begins with:
My love is as a fever, longing still
For that which longer nurseth the disease,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdededdd
- 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: 1101010101 1111010001 1011110101 10101010101 1100010011 1010010111 11111100101 01001110001 1111110011 1101010101 1111101111 1100011001 1111111111 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 603
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.
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