This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Cxlii that begins with:
Love is my sin and thy dear virtue hate,
Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving:... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbcbcdedeff
- 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: 1011111101 10111011010 1101011111 11110101100 1001101101 11100110100 1111011111 1101101011 001011111101 1111111001 1100111101 1101010110 0111011111 1101011001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 674
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase hate connects the lines.
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