This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Cxlviii that begins with:
O me, what eyes hath Love put in my head,
Which have no correspondence with true sight!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXbcbXcdcdaa
- 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: 1111111011 1111010011 1011101101 11001011110 0101101111 1101010011 0001111101 1101111111 1101111101 1011010101 1101110111 0101111101 1101011111 1111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 690
- Average number of words per stanza: 125
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; not is repeated.
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More information about poems by William Shakespeare
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