This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 152: In Loving Thee Thou Know'st I Am Forsworn that begins with:
In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn,
But thou art twice forsworn to me love swearing:... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeXeccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 0101111111 11111101110 0111111111 01011101110 11011111011 1111011101 11111110011 1111010101 11111101110 1011111100 10010111010 1101010111 1111111101 0101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 638
- Average number of words per stanza: 125
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, new, i, thee, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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