This is an analysis of the poem Songs In Sleep that begins with:
If I could frame for you in cunning words
The songs my heart in sleep is often singing,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XbXb cdcd bbbb efef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111110101 01110101010 1101110001 011100101010 1011110100 11011001010 0101011001 110101010110 11010010111 011101010101 1101111101 1110100110 1101010111 11110111010 1111011111 11010101010 0111110101 11011101010 1111001111 11010111010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
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