This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 51: Thus Can My Love Excuse The Slow Offence that begins with:

Thus can my love excuse the slow offence
Of my dull bearer, when from thee I speed:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabaacacbabacc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111010110 0111010111 0111111111 1101010011 1101011111 1101001111 1111110101 010001110111 11110101011 110100101101 1100110001001 1111110111 1011011101 01111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 648
  • Average number of words per stanza: 121
  • 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; i, love are repeated.

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