This is an analysis of the poem Song Of The Awakening that begins with:

Awake, son, sleep no longer!
Awake, for you have slept too much,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AXbbbcbbddeffgccXhgcdXijkfXaflXXfgmgkjabjfhlhXdgffcdebennjXXdfggdXifdlXgmXhgdeXggA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 82,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111110 01111111 1111110 0111010 01010010 000100101 1000111 10011101 111 111 1001100 11111010 1011010 1001101 1110101111 10111111 101101010 1100110 111011 10101011 01011 1101111010 1011001 111110101 1100101 100111100 10011100 1111110010 001011101 0111101 1011 1111010 10111010110 11010 1010100101 10110 111010 11111111 100100010 111101 10001101 01011011 100110011 101011011 11010 10101010100 0101110 1001110 101001 010111 11100111 0111011011 0100100 111010010 10001101000 11101010 0111010 1110101 11110110 111101101 01001101 010010 1011100 1001011 100111 11001101 11001111110 1111011 11010 11101110101 0111110 11101110 11001010 11001011 1001110 10101001 11001110 111010 10110110011 01001111 1110111011110 0111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2621
  • Average number of words per stanza: 487
  • Amount of lines: 82
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, has are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words awake, and, a are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).

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  • summary of Song Of The Awakening;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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