This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Lxi that begins with:
Is it thy will thy image should keep open
My heavy eyelids to the weary night?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcccXbdbdee
- 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: 00101101110 1101100101 110101101010 1111011111 0011011101 1101001101 01111101001 0111001100 1111110111 0011111101 1111111101 0101010111 1111111111 0111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 663
- Average number of words per stanza: 121
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; my, love are repeated.
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