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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  • summary of Sonnet Xlvi;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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