This is an analysis of the poem Twenty Gallons Of Sleep that begins with:

MEASURE me out from the fathomless tun
That somewhere or other you keep ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabA acac dbdb baBA ecec fefe XaBA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011001001 11111011 0110101101 101001 10100101 101111 0010011101 1110101 110011101 1101101 010101101 1110101 0111011101 111111 110111101 101001 10100101 00100101 1010101101 10100101 111011101 0100101 0110101101 1100001 1111111110 11111101 110111101 101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1115
  • Average number of words per stanza: 183
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; your, i are repeated.

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  • summary of Twenty Gallons Of Sleep;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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