This is an analysis of the poem Love Lies Sleeping that begins with:
Earliest morning, switching all the tracks
that cross the sky from cinder star to star,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaX cdab ccde fghf ibda cbdj ejhd aXhX Xdic acdd jccf gehc kckX cffXXcdfh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1001010101 1101010101 100101 0101 1110011011 1101110101 110101 111111 1011010101 01110101101 110111 001011 1011010001 1100110101 010101 100101 1011100100 0111010101 101101 010101 01101011010 0101001000001 101101 111111 0101000111 100110010101 100100101 010101 11001011001 110111000111100 101111 011100 1101010111 01010001011 010101 010101 1001010101 1011100101 1111010 0011010 11010100101 0101111101 101101 0110010 1100110101 1101100111 1011 1011010 1100111001000 100011011 1001010 011100 111011100101 111101001001 1101 110100 01011000101 0101010111 010101 011011
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word whose is repeated.
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- summary of Love Lies Sleeping;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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