This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 93: So Shall I Live, Supposing Thou Art True that begins with:
So shall I live, supposing thou art true,
Like a deceivèd husband; so love's face... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdXdceceaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1111010111 101000010111 1111011101 1101110101 1111110011 1101110111 0101011100 0101111101 11001010001 1011111101 10011111100 1111011101 11101011101 0111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 640
- 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; in, thy are repeated.
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