This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 5: Those Hours, That With Gentle Work Did Frame that begins with:
Those hours, that with gentle work did frame
The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeXeXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1101010101 01011100111 0101000101 1101110101 1101011101 01001010111 1101110111 1010001100101 1011010101 01010010101 1001010001 1011010101 11001110101 1111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 627
- Average number of words per stanza: 104
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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