This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 57: Being Your Slave, What Should I Do But Tend that begins with:

Being your slave, what should I do but tend
Upon the hours and times of your desire?... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcdedeff
  • 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: 1011111111 010101101010 1111011101 11000111010 11110101110 1111010111 11010001010 1111110101 1111001101 1110110101 1101111101 1111110111 1101011010 1111011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 615
  • Average number of words per stanza: 120
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; you is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nor is repeated.

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