This is an analysis of the poem The Room Beneath The Rafters that begins with:

Sometimes when I have dropped asleep,
Draped in soft luxurious gloom, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababccdd dcdcbbee cfcfgghh igighhjj kekellmm
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01111101 10101001 01110101 010000101 110010101 0100111 11010111 01010101 01110011 01001101 11010111 11010101 01010111 11011111 10011101 10011101 11010111 11001111 010000101 111100101 11011101 11010101 01010101 11010111 11110011 11010001 10110101 11010111 11111101 11111011 11010001 01110101 11110101 01111111 0111101001 11010101 011101010 110011010 01010111 11001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; to, that are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, to are repeated.

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  • history of its creation;
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