This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Cliii that begins with:
Cupid laid by his brand, and fell asleep:
A maid of Dian's this advantage found,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdbebeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1011011101 010100101 10110100101 0011010011 11100101001 01001011001 1101011111 0111000101 11110111110 0111011111 11100101010 11010110001 1111011111 11011101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 675
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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.
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