Sonnet Cli by William Shakespeare: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Cli that begins with:

Love is too young to know what conscience is;
Yet who knows not conscience is born of love?... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXabcbcbdbdee
  • 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: 1011011100 1111100101 1101011101 1100111111 1101011101 11010111010 1111110111 10011111010 1101111111 1001011001 1001011100 0101011111 1101010111 01011111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 671
  • Average number of words per stanza: 119
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; my, thy are repeated.

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

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