This is an analysis of the poem I Sleep A Lot that begins with:
I sleep a lot and read St. Thomas Aquinas
Or The Death of God (that's a Protestant book)....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbbabcd eXfXX bgaafehXggX bXeadbcbicXcaih
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,5,11,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111110010 10101101001 0010110101 0101100101010 0101010101 00111011 010111010101101 0101010110101 010101011 111010110111111101 11101011011101111 1101110 11010010010010010 1100110 1101 1110111 10101100 101101 1111000100110 11100010110 10111011111 110 111 1001 1000 110011101 111010111000 1101101101 111111101 1100110011 110111101 1111111010 101011011 111101111010 10110100101010 1010110010111 11011110111010 1110101010011 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 316
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; beyond, i, and, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words beyond, when are repeated.
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