This is an analysis of the poem Insomnia:A Sextet that begins with:
On Reading Cioran
Leaf caught in a branch of ice,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aXbcb XdeXf ghg gijkd Xk Xhialkm f XX aXebbahba kXXjcfXmlh XXdbcfclkm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,5,3,5,2,7,1,2,9,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010 1100101 11100 010 101110 01 10111 11 0111 11 11 11011 111 1111 11011111 1101010 0111 1100 011 1 001000100 010000 110111 1101110100 10 0101100010010 11001 10101 1110101 1 1000100 10 01001000 10101101 10110101 10101110101 1010101011 1010 11011 111 1101 10100 00101 0101 1111010010 0100100 0100100 10101 11011110 11010100010101 1 1001 0011001 011110 11001 1010100100100 110 10001 11
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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- summary of Insomnia:A Sextet;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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