This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 8: Music To Hear, Why Hear'st Thou Music Sadly? that begins with:
Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 10011111010 1011110101 11111110110 1110010101 001110110001 1101010111 1111011101 0100011111 11111100010 11011100100 0100101111010 1101110111 11011010101 1001101011100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 668
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; thou, one are repeated.
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