This is an analysis of the poem Sleep that begins with:
In vain, thou drowsy God! I thee invoke;
For thou, who dost from fumes arise—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXbaa bcddcee eXfffee fgffgff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111011101 11110101 11111100 00111101 111100101 110001001 11011101111 1111101101 11100111 01010101 11010101 01100101 11111101 0100000101 1111110101 1010100 11111101 01010101 01010111 1110101 1101010111 11011110111 101101111 10111101 11111101 10111011 10010100 11101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 302
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thou, to, thee, and are repeated.
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- summary of Sleep;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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