This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xxxii: If Thou Survive My Well-Contented Day that begins with:
If thou survive my well-contented day,
When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeXeXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 0101110101 11111101110 1111011101 1111010110 01000100001 11100111001 0101111111 01010101001 1110110101 10111100101 0101100111 0101010100 1111110101 111111010100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 639
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; this is repeated.
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