This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 99: The Forward Violet Thus Did I Chide that begins with:
The forward violet thus did I chide:
"Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells,... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXacacddddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 0101001011 10111111111 0101110101 1111110101 01111111010 010110000111 1101001111 0101001101 1101010101 0111111101 10010011011 1101010101 0101011101 11011011111 1111001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 691
- Average number of words per stanza: 126
- Amount of lines: 15
- 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; his is repeated.
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