This is an analysis of the poem My Sister's Sleep that begins with:
She fell asleep on Christmas Eve:
At length the long-ungranted shade... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXa cddc beeb fggf baab hiih jggj kggk Xccg hjjj kcck bggb hbbh kbXk giiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011101 11011001 010111000 01111101 11011111 10010101 11011011 11110101 01011011 01010101 11010111 01110001 01110111 010100111 01010010 11110101 10110101 011101001 110000111 01010101 11010111 111011111 101100101 01010101 111111000 101101111 01010101 11010101 11010111 01011101 11010101 10110111 1001001010 11110101 01100101 10110111 11001101 11010101 11111101 111101011 01010101 110111001 100110011 11001111 11110111 11001101 11010101 01101111 11111111 11111111 11110111 01010101 11010111 11111111 1011111110 11111101 11001101 01010101 11101101 1010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 60
- 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; work, and, my are repeated.
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