This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 92: But Do Thy Worst To Steal Thyself Away that begins with:

But do thy worst to steal thyself away,
For term of life thou art assured mine;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcddadaee
  • 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: 1111011001 110111011 1111011101 1001011101 1111010101 1001001111 1101010101 1111110101 1111101001 1111110111 1101010111 1001111001 111111111 1101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 578
  • Average number of words per stanza: 121
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; happy is repeated.

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