This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Lxxii that begins with:
O, lest the world should task you to recite
What merit lived in me, that you should love... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcacaXdXdee
- 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: 1101111001 1101011111 1011110111 1101110101 01110111001 0111111110 111101011 1101110001 1111111100 1111110101 1101011100 1111011111 1111111111 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 662
- Average number of words per stanza: 119
- 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; you, me are repeated.
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