This is an analysis of the poem Baudelaire that begins with:
When I fall asleep, and even during sleep,
I hear, quite distinctly, voices speaking ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXb ccdadbbX eddd fgfbbcXec bcbXbb fcbddgd Xggdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,4,9,6,7,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101110101 1110101010 1101011100 1010100101 1100101101 01001011101 110100100110 11101101101 1110010001110 111011111010 1111101111 00101011 10110111 111110011110 111000010100 01010110101 11100011101 1010111010 11011111101 01101111 111011001 11101011100 10001110011 011011001101 00110100110 1110010101 1110101111 1111110011 010011101 010111011110 0101001010 11101011011 1100110110 01010101010010 010011110101 010001000110101 01000101110100 000100001001011 1101110100 111100101010 111010100 111100111111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; to, i, my, tomorrow, same, of, history are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, a, although are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines write is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase tomorrow connects the lines.
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