This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 26: Lord Of My Love, To Whom In Vassalage… that begins with:
Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit;... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXababacacadd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011010100 1101110101 0111010100 0101010111 1011111111 11110101010 1111100101 01111100010 11010111110 1111000111 11010111010 0111001101 11110111111 11111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 599
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; to, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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