When To The Sessions Of Sweet Silent Thought (Sonnet 30) by William Shakespeare: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem When To The Sessions Of Sweet Silent Thought (Sonnet 30) that begins with:

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaababacXcXdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1001001101 1101010011 11010100111 1011111111 1111110101 11011011001 1101111101 110010100101 1111110011 11000101110 010101100001 1111101101 1001111111 1101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 617
  • Average number of words per stanza: 118
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; i, of are repeated.

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

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