This is an analysis of the poem To Sleep that begins with:
When shadows pale are sinking in hues the twilight weaves,
Upon the golden grain fields of gleaming wheaten sheaves- ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaacccXddaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110010111 0101011010101 01010010110101 1011010100111 11010110100101 0101010110111 10111010101101 110101110111 11010100100101 0101010010101 1011011000101 0101010101001 01110010011111 1100010011111 1101110101110 1111110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 884
- Average number of words per stanza: 158
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, with, my, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words upon, when are repeated.
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- summary of To Sleep;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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