This is an analysis of the poem The Dark Lady Sonnets (127 - 154) that begins with:
CXXVII
In the old age black was not counted fair,... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: Xababcdcdebebff X XgXghihijdjddd X bjbjjijifbfbkk X lilijdjdfifiaa X jkjkililadadgg X mlmlljljdjdjee X lmlmljljikikmm X lklkmimiededmm X kdkddldlkakakk X akaXnlnlimimkX X gmgmdidijdjdii X ogogpjpjjijimm X pjpjjijiggggll X dldlcfafimimii X gjgjilillmlmll X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,1,14,16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 0011111101 1000011101 1101100101 1101000101 11111111010 1001011111 11011111010 10100011001 1111011101 0111011101 1111111101 1001000101 1111010011 11001110111 1 1111110101 011111101 0111011101 0101111101 1110111101 0101010011 1111111101 1011011101 0011011111 1101001101 10111010101 1011111101 1101110100 1011011101 1 00101000101 0101011101 01010010101 1001110101 011101011 1101011101 1101010101 1101010101 1001100101 1101010101 0101110101 0101010101 1001111111 01010111001 1 1101110101 1001111011 0101110111 010101101101 11110100111 1111011001 1010101101 1001101101 1101011111 1101011101 1111010101 1101111101 11110111111 1101010101 1 1111001111 11110101010 1111011101 11010111010 1001111101 11110100111 0111111011 1111001101 1001101111 0101110111 1101011101 1101001101 0101111011 1101011101 1 11111111001 1011111001 1111110100 1001010111 11010101010 1001011001 11111100010 1111000101 1111010111 1101111011 0111110111 11110101001 1011100101 1111110101 1 1011111101 1111011111 1101010101 11010011110 10111101110 1111110101 01111111010 0011111001 1011011101 1111111111 1011111001 1111110011 11111110101 0111111001 1 1111011101 1111110010 1111011101 1101001101 1111110101 1111001101 11110010111 1011111111 0100110111 1100111101 1101110111 1111110101 1111111111 1101111111 1 0101011110 1001100101 1101111111 0110100101 111001110 1110011001 100101110 1010110101 0111010111 1001010001 11101001010 1001011101 1101111001 1111110110 1 0111111111 1011111110 1011100101 1111111110 0010010011 1101011101 0101010111 0101010101 1001011101 1011011110 1101110111 1101010101 1111111111 11110111101 1 1111111011 1101111111 1111001101 1101010100 0101110101 0100011111 101111111 10001001101 11111101001 1111011101 1111001001 0111011101 0111111111 1001111101 1 1111110101 1101011111 11111110001 1000011100 1101011111 1111111101 1011001101 1111010101 11001111001 11001111111 1111000101 1101110101 1111001101 1011111100 1 1111010101 1110010111 1110111011 110010111111 1111111011 1110011101 1111010111 011110000111 1101111111 0101101100 1110111111 1111111100 1111111111 1111011111 1 0111110111 1111001101 1101111101 0100110101 0111111000 1101110111 1101111101 1111010101 1011011111 1011011101 1011010111 1100111010 1111011101 1111111111 1 0111111011 1101010101 1111111101 1001010101 111101101010 1101001101 111101000010 01010010101 1111111101 0111010101 1101010001 1111110100 1011111111 1111110111 1 1011111101 10111011010 1101011111 11110101100 1001101101 11100110100 1111011111 1101101011 00101111111 1111111001 1100111101 1101010110 0111011111 1101011001 1 1101011101 1001010101 1101111101 0010011111 1001011001 1010110101 0101110101 1100110001 1111011101 1111110101 1011111101 1101011101 1011111111 0111111101 1 1111010101 1111010111 0101000111 01010010101 01110111110 1011010011 11011100010 1001000011 1101110011 0111110101 1101011011 1111000101 1011111101 11110101011 1 11111101 110111110 01110101 11111101 10010101 10111101 11010101 11010101 110110011 11001101 11011101 010010101 110010111 11111011 1 1101001101 110101101 1111011101 1011011101 1111101101 1101110101 1110000011 1111001101 1111011101 1111010111 11010101001 0101010111 1111111111 1111111101 1 1101010101 1111010001 1011110101 00101010101 1100010011 1010010111 11111100101 01001110001 1111110011 1101010101 1111101101 1100011001 1111111111 1111111111 1 1111111011 1111010011 1011101101 11001011110 0101101111 1101010011 0001111101 1101111111 1101111101 1011010101 1101110111 0101111101 1101011111 1111011111 1 1111011111 1101110101 1111111101 1011110111 1101111111 1111111101 1011111111 0101110011 1101101101 1011110001 1111110101 0101010011 1111111111 1111111111 1 101101101001 0100001101 0111010111 1111011101 1110010011 1001001011 1011110001 1011111101 1111011111 0111111101 1111110101 0101110111 0110001101 11010001001 1 1011011100 1111100101 1101011101 1100111111 1101011101 11010111010 1111110111 10011111010 1101111111 1001011001 1001011100 0101011111 1101010111 0111111111 1 0101111111 11111101110 0111111111 01011101110 11011111011 1111011101 11111110011 1111010101 11111101110 1011111100 10010111010 1101010111 1111111101 0101011101 1 1011011101 010100101 10110100101 0011010011 11100101001 01001011001 1101011111 0111000101 11110111110 0111011111 11100101010 11010110001 1111011111 11011101101 1 0101110101 1101010101 1101111101 1101100101 01010011110 1101001111 11010001010 1101010101 0111000111 10110110100 1001110100 1101111101 1111101111 11011010111
- Amount of stanzas: 55
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 311
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 420
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; her, i, thou, as, in, that, thy, me, my, heart, him, and, one, soul, love, what, see, they, she, mad, nor, to, sin, so, not, thee, new, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words is, past, if, nor, the, my, in are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases mad, hate connect the lines.
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- summary of The Dark Lady Sonnets (127 - 154);
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- idea of the verse;
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