This is an analysis of the poem How Is It That I Am Now So Softly Awakened that begins with:

How is it that I am now so softly awakened,
My leaves shaken down with music?—...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdeXfegbhhiXaXjdhdcdgXcjhcejieeffagkkedhdgifeckeihgga
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 55,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001111110010 11101010 10111 001111111101 1110101110 101010 011101 0011111111001 1111000101011 110000101 10001110011 111110110011 10011100110 101010011 01010010010 1001110101011 101100 100111111001 11000010001101 10100101101 10111110101 001001011011 111111100111 111110100101 1111101001 011111110 01110010110 11101101 11000011011 011111110 00111011110 11010101001 111101101001 100101010010 0111011001 1100010111101 101111 111010111101 11110100100111 11100100001001 010100100111 111001011011 101001011111 0111010011010 11111111010 10110101 1110100111 11011101 11111010010101 111111101011 11010 1101011000011 10110010100 1110110101110 1111101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2439
  • Average number of words per stanza: 442
  • Amount of lines: 55
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; i, your, you, and, sunlight, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nor is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines walls is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases roses, you connect the lines.

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