This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 39: O, How Thy Worth With Manners May I Sing that begins with:
O, how thy worth with manners may I sing,
When thou art all the better part of me?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdccccdd
- 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: 1111010111 1111010101 1111101111 1111111111 1010110101 1111110101 1101010111 1101111001 1101001111 00111010111 0101010101 1111110101 1111010111 1101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 619
- 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; mine, own are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.
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