This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 70:That Thou Art Blamed Shall Not Be Thy Defect… that begins with:
That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,
For slander's mark was ever yet the fair,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1111110101 1101110101 0100010001 0111010101 1100101101 1101010101 1101010111 111001011 1111011011 10101110101 1011100111 0111010101 0101011111 1101100111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 606
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.
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