This is an analysis of the poem Gustav Richter that begins with:
After a long day of work in my hot-houses
Sleep was sweet, but if you sleep on your left side...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcdbeccfXeXeggaadbgfgXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100110101110 11110111111 111001010 1101110111 100100110 1010100010 0010100101 111001010 010110001 1100110101 1010111010 1100000101 1111001010 11000111 101011111 110101111 010101011 101111010 0111101 100111000 1010110100 10110101 0100110111 1011111101 11
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 934
- Average number of words per stanza: 170
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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, and, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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