This is an analysis of the poem Love Sonnet Xliv that begins with:
Love is the sepulchre of all my sin,
If it be sin to let the body sink...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cdecde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 100100111 0001010101 0111001101 1111110110 1111010101 0101000101 1111011111 1101010101 11010100010 1111111111 1111010011 11010011110 1111110001 1111001111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, that, my are repeated.
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