This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 19: Devouring Time Blunt Thou The Lion's Paws that begins with:

Devouring Time blunt thou the lion's paws,
And make the earth devour her own sweet brood,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcXcdedeff
  • 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: 01001110101 11010100111 1011001101 1101110001 1111010111 11100111101 0011110101 1101111101 11101101111 1111101011 1011010101 1101000101 1111110111 1110111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 635
  • Average number of words per stanza: 117
  • 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; and is repeated.

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