This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Cxxxix that begins with:
O, call not me to justify the wrong
That thy unkindness lays upon my heart;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcddddee
- 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: 1111010101 1110010111 1110111011 110010111111 11110111011 1110011101 1111010111 01111010111 1101111111 0101101100 1110111111 1111111100 1111111111 1111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 692
- Average number of words per stanza: 121
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, not, me, my are repeated.
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