This is an analysis of the poem I Sleep With that begins with:
I sleep with double pillows since you're gone.
Is one of them for you-or is it you?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXc ccXa XXXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010111 0100111001 1101010100 1101110101 1010010101 010101111 0101010101 0101010101 1111011011 1110110111 0111111111 1010111 11
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of I Sleep With;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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