This is an analysis of the poem Jane Awake that begins with:

The opals hiding your lids
as you sleep, as you ride ponies...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb aacd edXe afXg acaX eadd gXhX hahXXhchf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 0101011 11111110 110000101 10110010 110111 10100001 0101011 111011 1001100 0101011 10101011 01001001 101010 11101 011110 111010 101011 1010010 101001 10010101 1100011 01010001 0110011 1011001 1010110 01101011 1101011 0111100 110111 10111011 1101011 1000101000 01010001 111110 110100111 01010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word your is repeated.

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  • summary of Jane Awake;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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