This is an analysis of the poem Night And Sleep that begins with:
How strange at night to wake
And watch, while others sleep,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcacadedeXfXfggggXdfddedeXhXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 111101 111101 110111 010101 1001011 01110100 110001 111101 011101 011111 011101 111101 01110010 01010100 1111010 0100111 010101 110101 010101 110101 110011 01010100 010101 010001 111101 101101 111101 110101 100101 111001000 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 896
- Average number of words per stanza: 158
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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