This is an analysis of the poem A Song that begins with:
Oh night and sleep,
Ye are so soft and deep,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABAAB Xccbbc bbbddb eefggfXAABAAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 111111 1111011101 11011 011101 11110111100 1110 110011 1111010101 1111 111111 0111100101 1111 100111 1101001101 1111 011111 1111110110 1111 111111 0111011111 1111 111101 1111111111 1111 111111 1111011101 11011 011101 11110111100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; he is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word oh is repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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