This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 21: So Is It Not With Me As With That Muse that begins with:
So is it not with me as with that muse,
Stirred by a painted beauty to his verse,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbcacadcdcee
- 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: 1001011011 1101010001 11001110011 11001001101 1001000101 0111011111 01011101111 1101001101 1111011101 1101111011 1101011111 1111010101 1011110111 1011110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 621
- Average number of words per stanza: 119
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; with, and, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, as are repeated.
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