I would say this is a complex sentence. Because it has one independent clause(their more aggressive style did not pay of.) and two dependent clauses.
Explanation:
becomes rigid aasthough it's dead
The rhyme scheme in the poem is: a b b a a b b a c d e c d e.
There is no end couplet, which makes this poem a Petrarchan sonnet.
Petrarchan sonnet consists of fourteen lines, the first eight lines (also called oc<em>tave</em>) follow the scheme: a b b a a b b a, and the rhyme scheme of the following six lines (also called <em>sestet</em>) may vary.
You can tell if they were influenced either negatively or positively by looking at their connotation and diction
