This is an analysis of the poem Awake that begins with:

Calm as that moonbeam on the wall,
Sleep broods on baby's eyes;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdeXe fgdgecXc bhihefiX cjajjhah
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111101 111101 11111101 011111 11010101 110111 11100101 101111 01010111 110111 11010111 010101 11110001 010101 11110111 110111 11110011 111101 10010111 110101 11111111 010101 11111111 1111000 11111111 111101 11010101 110111 11110001 110101 11011101 110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, i, not are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.

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  • summary of Awake;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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