This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 43: When Most I Wink, Then Do Mine Eyes Best See that begins with:
When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,
For all the day they view things unrespected;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabcdcdbabaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1111111111 11011111000 1111011111 11011101010 1111111111 1111011101 0011011101 101011111 111111010001 1101100101 1011110101 1101110111 1111011111 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 657
- Average number of words per stanza: 123
- 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; thy is repeated.
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