This is an analysis of the poem Sleep that begins with:
Godhead's lip hangs
When our pulses have no golden tremors,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaba caXXXXX dabdab aaccXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011 1110111010 10111011 1111001 11010010 101011 11011100 1101011111 0111010 10110101110 011 11011010 1101011 11100111 100101 111110101 00111001 10101011011 1101001110 0110111 11111 10001 111100100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, 0 are repeated.
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- summary of Sleep;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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