This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xci that begins with:
Some glory in their birth, some in their skill,
Some in their wealth, some in their bodies' force,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdededff
- 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: 1100111011 1011101101 1011011101 1011111011 110010101110 0101010101 11010011110 11110011001 1101011101 1011101101 0101111100 1101011111 1000011111 1001111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 692
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; some, in, their, than are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word some is repeated.
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- summary of Sonnet Xci;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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