This is an analysis of the poem A Sleepless Night that begins with:
Within the hollow silence of the night
I lay awake and listened. I could hear... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXabbaXacaac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101010001 1101110111 10010010101 1101110010 11011001001 1111110011 11111100101 0101010111 1100010111 0101010101 11111101000 0101010111 1001010111 0101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 603
- Average number of words per stanza: 100
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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.
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