This is an analysis of the poem Insomnia that begins with:
Thin are the night-skirts left behind
By daybreak hours that onward creep,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacdCD eddecdCD fggfcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 111101101 11010101 11000101 10111111 11010101 110101111 010101 11111101 11110101 11111101 11011111 01110101 100101001 110101111 010101 01011101 10111111 11011101 110100111 01110111 11110101 111101111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 325
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word our is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word yet at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Insomnia;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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