This is an analysis of the poem Being Waked Out Of My Sleep By A Snuff Of Candle Which Offended Me, I Thus Thought that begins with:
Perhaps 'twas but conceit. Erroneous sence!
Thou art thine own distemper and offence. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbccccddeefffa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01110101001 1111010110 0101111001 1101010001 1001110101 1111011101 1001010101 1001110001 1111010101 1101110101 1001011101 1011110101 1111110101 1011010101 11110101001 1111110011 1001110101 1100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 787
- Average number of words per stanza: 139
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and are repeated.
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