This is an analysis of the poem Pleasant Thought For The Morning that begins with:

At four o'clock on a summer morning,
The Sleep of love still lasts. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaaX XbXX XXXc abXc XcXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101101010 010111 10010011001 00101 11100111 1010001 010001100 101010 100010110001 11010010100 10100010 0101101 111101001 010010101 1011010101 111101 110010 11100010 1111101 0101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; of is repeated.

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