This is an analysis of the poem Love In My Arms Lies Sleeping that begins with:
Roses red for the fair young head to weave a crown,
Let them be half blown,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabccdbDXcbcbdddbD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101110101 10011 10101001110111 1111 01010011111111 1010110111 111100101 11111110 110110111 1011110 10110111 00101 10101 10101101111101 1101 1101111001 0111111111 11111110 11101111 1011110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 765
- Average number of words per stanza: 156
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; for, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, hath are repeated.
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