This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Cxxxvii that begins with:
Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes,
That they behold, and see not what they see?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdececdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1111111011 1101111111 1111001101 1101010100 0101110101 0100011111 101111111 10001001101 11111101001 1111011101 1111001001 0111011101 0111111111 1001111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 701
- Average number of words per stanza: 125
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; what, see, they are repeated.
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