This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 45: The Other Two, Slight Air And Purging Fire that begins with:

The other two, slight air and purging fire,
Are both with thee, wherever I abide;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcXXdbdbb
  • 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: 01011111010 1101010101 01110101010 1011001101 1111010011 0101000101 11101010101 11010101010 01110100100 1111000101 11011110101 0111010001 0111111101 1101011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 600
  • Average number of words per stanza: 106
  • 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.

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