This is an analysis of the poem When You Wake Tomorrow that begins with:
I will give you a poem when you wake tomorrow.
It will be a peaceful poem....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXa bcdcc eXcXf cgXbAXdebcgffA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,5,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011010111011 00001010 01111 01111000 00100010011 111011 0111011101 1101100 1100110 011110 011000 101010110 11100100001 10100100 111010 01000101101 1010110 10101110 10101110 1010101010 111011 1010000111110100 00101010 0011011110010 10100 10101101001 10100001101 1101 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; you, it, your, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, i, to are repeated.
The author used the same word we 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 it is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word tomorrow at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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