This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 91: Some Glory In Their Birth, Some In Their Skill that begins with:

Some glory in their birth, some in their skill,
Some in their wealth, some in their body's force,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdebeXff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 1100111011 1011101101 1011011101 1011111011 110010101110 0101010101 11010011110 11110011001 1101011101 1011101101 0101111100 11010111110 1000011111 1001111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 642
  • Average number of words per stanza: 115
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; some, in, their, than are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word some is repeated.

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