This is an analysis of the poem Mattins that begins with:
I cannot ope mine eyes,
But thou art ready there to catch... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa Bcbc Bdbd bebeXdede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111 11110101 11011101 1111111101 111001 10111101 11111101 0111110001 111001 11101111 10010111 1011110101 011101 01110011 10111101 1100111110 111101 10111111 11011101 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or is repeated.
The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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