This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 23: As An Unperfect Actor On The Stage that begins with:
As an unperfect actor on the stage
Who with his fear is put beside his part,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbdbdbbb
- 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: 1110010101 1001010101 1111010111 1101010011 1111010101 0011010011 1011111001 100001001111 1111010100 1110001101 1111111101 1111111101 1101110111 0101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 624
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- 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; his, love's, of, more are repeated.
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