This is an analysis of the poem Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed that begins with:
Lie still, sleep becalmed, sufferer with the wound
In the throat, burning and turning. All night afloat...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab caca dbadba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 11101100001 001101101101 1010111101 1100110011 100111110100 001110110011 110111001010 01001011101 1001110111 1100101001001 1110001001011 110111110111 11101101001 111011101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
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