This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 2: that begins with:
When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,
And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccccXdXdbb
- 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: 1101010111 1111001101 1111001111 0001010111 1101111101 1101001101 0101111101 0111011101 1111011101 0111011101 11111111100 1001010101 0000111111 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 640
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; thy, all are repeated.
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