This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Iii: Look In Thy Glass, And Tell The Face Thou Viewest that begins with:
Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest
Now is the time that face should form another; ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabcbcdbdbdd
- 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: 10111101110 10011111010 11010111100 11010110110 11011111001 0101001100 1101110001 0011010100 1111011101 1101010001 1111001111 0101001101 1011010100 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 622
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; thou, of are repeated.
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