This is an analysis of the poem Before Sleep that begins with:
Now that you lie
In London afar,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXXacc dedeeeff cbcbXbgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 01001 11110 1100 111111 0011 1011101 101101011 0101 1010 1100 1001010 10010 1110 1111111 10110010001 0101 110010 110110 111110 011001 10110 11110111 000101111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us is repeated).
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- summary of Before Sleep;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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