This is an analysis of the poem Waking that begins with:

Before my senses or my soul awake,
Sorrow begins to stir within my heart;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbbccbbbXbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 0111011101 1001010111 1101010111 110011100101 0111010111 0011110111 11010010101 0101000101 1101110001 11110100111 1101110101 10000111110 1011010111 0101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 628
  • Average number of words per stanza: 110
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.

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  • summary of Waking;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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