This is an analysis of the poem The Sleep That Flits On Baby's Eyes that begins with:
The sleep that flits on baby's eyes,
Whence does it come? Can you surmise?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaa dd ee ccff dd bbggaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,2,2,4,2,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111101 11011101 10011101 11010101 110010101 11010111 11110101 01110101 01001101011 11011111 11010101 010011111 1010100111 10101101001 1100100111 10100111 1110100111 110111011 100110111 110101111 0011100101 000100101 11110111 111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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