This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xlvi that begins with:
Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
How to divide the conquest of thy sight;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdXbXbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1111110101 1001010011 1111110111 1111010011 1111110111 0101010101 1001011101 1101110101 0101001000 0101110001 111100010 0111010111 1111101101 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 667
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; mine, eye, heart are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word my is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines part is repeated).
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