This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xxii that begins with:
My glass shall not persuade me I am old,
So long as youth and thou are of one date;... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbdedeff
- 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: 1111011111 1111111011 1101110101 1111111101 1111011101 0101010011 1011111101 1111010111 11110010110 1111111110 10111101110 1101010101 0111111101 11011101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 660
- Average number of words per stanza: 122
- 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; i is repeated.
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