This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Lvi that begins with:
Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said
Thy edge should blunter be than appetite,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1101110011 1111001101 1101110001 0101000101 1101110111 110110111010 0101011111 0100100010010 10110010100 1101111001 1100011111 0101111001 11010110101 1101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 686
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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.
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- summary of Sonnet Lvi;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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