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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