This is an analysis of the poem A Child Asleep that begins with:
How he sleepeth! having drunken
Weary childhood's mandragore,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabb cdcXd aeaee XaXaa cfcff ghXih fefXe jkjkk hlhll khkhX gmgmm XhXii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 1010100 00101110 1001111 1010101001110101 100101010 1010111 11101010 1001110 101110101010101 1010111110 0011101 10101010 1011001 1111001000011001 10101010 1011101 11101100 0010111 101100101001101 11101010 1100101 10111010 0010101 101110101010101 10101010 1010101 10101010 1010111 101010111010001 10101001 111001 10101111 1110101 111010011011001 10001010 1010111 01101010 0010101 101110101011101 10101110 111111 11101010 1010001 1110101000101111 11101010 1110101 10111010 1010111 001001101010100 11111010 1010001 11111010 1010101 111110101011011 10101110 1110111 00101010 1010001 11111011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; as, around, it, in, ye are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, to, now are repeated.
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