This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Cxii that begins with:
Your love and pity doth the impression fill
Which vulgar scandal stamp'd upon my brow;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 11110100101 1101010111 1111111111 11101111001 1111011111 0111110011 1101110101 11101110111 0101101111 0101011101 0101010011 1101011101 1111001101 1101011011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 657
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; my, to are repeated.
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- summary of Sonnet Cxii;
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