This is an analysis of the poem The Sleeper that begins with:
At midnight, in the month of June,
I stand beneath the mystic moon.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffggghh ffccffdXiijjkkhhllX cccddmmm ccciiggXhaaakkaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,19,8,16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11100101 11010101 110010101 100010101 11010111 01010101 11001100 000101010 011010101 01010101 10010101 01010001 1011101 01010101 11110101 11011111 0100100 11011001 01010001 01010011 10010101 010010101 11110011 11010100 11001100 01011101 11110111 110011101 11011111 11011111 11111101 111110111 01001101 10110111 10111101 10110100 01011101 10010101 101000101 010111110 011111010 11011111 11000101 10110111 11111101 10010101 11010101 10010111 10111101 11111101 11101001 010100101 001100100 1100101 01110111 011101101 11011101 11111101 10011101 01011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 599
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thou, thy, strange are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, strange, this are repeated.
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- summary of The Sleeper;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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