This is an analysis of the poem Sleep that begins with:
she was a short one
getting fat and she had once been...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aababXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011 10111110 1001 1101 1101011 111111 1 1110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word she is repeated.
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- summary of Sleep;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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