This is an analysis of the poem The Innocence Of Any Flesh Sleeping that begins with:
Sleeping beside you I dreamt
I woke beside you;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaab cdd efebgX eeef egXeXcf bXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,6,4,7,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001111 11011 10011 111110 1110101110 11 0010 0110011010 0010 10 0100010110 11000 1010010 011 0110 01110 1101110 011010 1101 11001101 1011110 101 111 11010 100101110 100110 11111010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, beside, you are repeated.
The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word her at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase dreaming connects the lines.
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