Poem Analysis of Sonnets Xviii: Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day? by William Shakespeare for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Sonnets Xviii: Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day? that begins with:

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.... full text

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Rhyme scheme: ababcdcXdXdXaa
Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
Closest metre: iambic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
Metre: 1101100101 1111011100 1111010101 1101111101 1111010101 1100010101 11001011101 11110101100 1101010111 1101001111 1111110001 1001010111 1111111111 1110101101
Amount of stanzas: 1
Average number of symbols per stanza: 661
Average number of words per stanza: 114
Amount of lines: 14
Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; thou is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, nor, so are repeated.

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