This is an analysis of the poem Now I Lay Me that begins with:
When I pass from earth away,
Palsied though I be and gray,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaa X cc X dd X ee X aaeeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 1011011 1110111 11101001 1111101 1111101 1111101 1000101 1010101 11011101 0110111 0010001 111101110 1000101 1010001 110111010 0010111 1000100 1010111 1101101 1110101 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 73
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; me, to are repeated.
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