This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xxxix: Sleepless Dreams that begins with:
Girt in dark growths, yet glimmering with one star,
O night desirous as the nights of youth!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXaaXbacddcXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10111100011 1101010101 1111011110 1110110101 1001010101 1111111101 1111111111 1101111101 11110111101 11001000111 1111110101 1101111101 0101010100 1100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 630
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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