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

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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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