This is an analysis of the poem From A Poem that begins with:

I also loved, and the restless breaths
Of sleeplessness, fluttering through darkness, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXcbdbbd defbfffgf eeeXhchcddgbfb XXghdXdXbbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,9,14,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110110101 0100100110 10011101 000110010011 011100101 11111010101 10110100011 1011011111 100001110011 100010111 110111011 110100010001 1101010101 010110111 101111010 1111101010 1111010101010 0101011101010 10010101010 1101110110 0101010111 1101110111 010111011101 0111011101010 1010101010110 1011010100100 11111100010 01110110111 111101010101 1101111111 1110101111 101001000101 11101101001 1101110101 0100011100110 11110001101 100101101100100 110111010101 11100100111 1010101100011 011100011101 1001111011 010101001100 110111010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 511
  • Average number of words per stanza: 90
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; and, as, for are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word as is repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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