This is an analysis of the poem Sleep Peacefully that begins with:
You said the word that enamors
My hearing. You already forgot. Good....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba XXbX XaaX aXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11011010 1101010010 1100111 00111001110 10010110 01011110 1110110010 11011011 1100100011 10101011 001100111 0101 010100010010 0101011001 0110011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of Sleep Peacefully;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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