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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