This is an analysis of the poem Sleeping On The Wing that begins with:
Perhaps it is to avoid some great sadness,
as in a Restoration tragedy the hero cries 'Sleep! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbcdee XeebXfXaad fgXgcaafgcXXgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01000011110 100101010001011 110111110101 1111001010010 101000101010 11011101101 01101010010101 1100110100100 11011100111 110001010110 10101110101 10010110110100 1101000101011 101011101001 111101111101 11001000110001 01011101010010 001001010011 01101101101 101101010101 0101101100100 1110110101010 11101001011 111110101001 1111011110 101000100100101 11001101110 10101111111 0100111011101 11110001010 10011101010 11010101110000
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 526
- Average number of words per stanza: 95
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, to, and, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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- summary of Sleeping On The Wing;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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