This is an analysis of the poem Sonnets Xix: Devouring Time, Blunt Thou The Lion's Paws that begins with:
Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,
And make the earth devour her own sweet brood;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 01001110101 11010100111 1011001101 1101110001 1111010111 11100111101 0011110101 1101111101 11100101111 1111101011 1011010101 1101000101 1111110111 1110111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 669
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- 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; and is repeated.
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