This is an analysis of the poem The Men Who May Not Sleep that begins with:
When the deer have gone to covert, and the wild bird chirp their last,
And the rabbits play at twilight down the dale,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdXd cecefdXd agagfdXd hihicdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101110101011111 10101111101 101011101011101 10101010101 101110110010101 10101111111 1010101011101110 10101011111 0010010111110101 0101110111 101110101010101 11111011101 1100111111011 1101010111 1110111010101010 10101011111 101011101011101 11111010101 10101111010101 00101011101 11111111011001 101110110101 1011101010101000 1111011111 0010010101010101 0101010101 101011101111111 1111011101 0101111110101 101101011111 1011011010111010 11111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 453
- Average number of words per stanza: 85
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, they, to, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word sleep at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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