This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 96: Some Say Thy Fault Is Youth, Some Wantonness that begins with:

Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness;
Some say thy grace is youth and gentle sport;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXabcbcdadaaa
  • 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: 1111011100 1111011101 1111110111 1111010101 110100010001 0101000101 1111010111 0101011111 1101101101 0101110101 1101011101 0111010111 1111111011 11101101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 637
  • Average number of words per stanza: 121
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; some, and are repeated.

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

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