This is an analysis of the poem Saint Elizabeth Of Bohemia that begins with:
I.
I NEVER lay me down to sleep at night ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abbaaccaddddXb X ceeXcXXceeccaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,1,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1 1101110111 1011111101 01010101001 1111010101 111110011 1111010111 1111011111 1101010001 111111000100 11001011111 1111000101 10110100101 11110101100 111001110111 1 0101111101 1011000101 0111110101 10110101010 11100011111 11110111010 1111010111 1011111101 1011011111 1111011101 11010100111 11111110101 10010100101 1110101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 317
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and 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.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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