This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 24: Mine Eye Hath Played The Painter And Hath Stelled that begins with:

Mine eye hath played the painter and hath stelled
Thy beauty's form in table of my heart;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXabcbcdedeaa
  • 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: 11110101110 1101010011 1100010111 1010001101 1101011101 0111110101 1011010101 110101000011 1110111111 1111111111 1100111101 0101010111 1101010111 1111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 652
  • Average number of words per stanza: 122
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; to, eyes are repeated.

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