This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 40: Take All My Loves, My Love, Yea, Take Them All that begins with:

Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all;
What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXXXXcdcdee
  • 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: 1111111101 1111111101 1111111111 1111011101 10111111100 11011111110 11010111100 11010111100 11011100101 1111111100 1111000101 01111101100 01001011111 11010111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 644
  • Average number of words per stanza: 122
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; love, thou, my, all are repeated.

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