This is an analysis of the poem Sapphics that begins with:
All the night sleep came not upon my eyelids,
Shed not dew, nor shook nor unclosed a feather, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcd cdec fXag bhXX baXh ibcg cXXj ggki haba bfke Xgab kfXk cacc aaja icaa hjaf gkXb cfgX XgkX Xkcfj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111101111 111111100010 10111101010 11101 10111001010 10111001111 10111111111 10010 10101001010 101011011000 111001111010 10010 10101001110 10111001010 10101001100 1100 10101001010 10101001010 10101001100 10011 10101001010 10111001010 10101001010 10011 10101001010 10111001010 10111001010 11010 10111001111 101010001010 10101001110 10110 10111101010 10101011010 11111011010 10010 101010101110 111001001010 11111101111 11011 10101011110 11101001111 11101001011 11010 10101001010 11101001010 10101101010 11011 101001001110 10111101011 10111011010 10111 10101001110 10111011010 10101010010 11011 10101001010 10011101010 10101001010 10011 10111001110 10101001010 10111001010 11010 10101011010 10111101111 10101001100 10010 10111101110 10101011010 10111101111 11010 101111000010 100001001011 10111001010 1101 10101101110 11101001010 11101001010 10010
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 99
- 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; and, of, her, saw, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words saw, full, songs are repeated.
The author used the same word then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Sapphics;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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