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

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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 111001100001 1111011011 10101110101 1011100111 0111010101 0101011111 1101100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 620
  • Average number of words per stanza: 111
  • 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.

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