This is an analysis of the poem Sonnets Iv that begins with:

THY bosom is endeared with all hearts
Which I, by lacking, have supposed dead: ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefdd bbbbghghchchgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110001011 111101011 1111111101 111111110 110010101001 1101011011 11000011101 1101110011 1101110111 1001001101 1111010101 1101010101 1100111101 1111110101 1011010111 1100111111 110011100111 11111100111 0101010101 0101010101 1101110101 11010101101 10001110001 0111101101 0101110101 1101001111 1101011111 1111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 639
  • Average number of words per stanza: 111
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • 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; and, all, of, one, every, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.

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