This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 74: But Be Contented When That Fell Arrest that begins with:
But be contented when that fell arrest
Without all bail shall carry me away;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbdXdXee
- 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: 1001011101 0111110101 1110011100 11010010111 1110001111 0101110101 0111111001 11001010101 1111110101 0101110101 010100011 110100100000 0101011001 1100100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 602
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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