This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Cvii: Not Mine Own Fears, Nor The Prophetic Soul that begins with:
Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
Of the wide world dreaming on things to come,... 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: 1111100101 0011101101 1101011101 0111000011 0101100101 1011011110 1000110101 1101100101 1001001101 1111110101 1101110011 11011011101 1100111100 1101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 627
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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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