This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 63: Against My Love Shall Be, As I Am Now that begins with:
Against my love shall be, as I am now,
With Time's injurious hand crushed and o'erworn;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabcdcdXeXebb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 0111101111 010100111100 11011011101 0111010101 1101010101 1111010111 1100110101 10010100001 1101111101 0101010101 1111010100 1111011101 0101011101 1111110011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 618
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and are repeated.
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