This is an analysis of the poem Insomnia that begins with:
Sleepless himself to give to others sleep.
He giveth His beloved sleep....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bcbcddeffe ghghgggiig XajaXgkbbk dldlccmbbm ngnghhmjjm oooogggmmg hahaddXcccj XjXjddjoXX mpmpXXlXdl oXhnjjhXXX lmlmiiXggq ogogrrgbXg jjjjXohooh qaqaggpmmp cdcdXmgccg njnXddjooj eoeoooqssq njnjmmljjl cdcdnndmmddcdcmmgXjg ododcclXdfkckcggnmmn gXggmmmjjma
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,10,10,10,10,10,10,11,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,20,20,30,10,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001010101 11000101 11010001110 0101111101 01010101010 0111001101 1001010101 0100110101 111111 110010101010 00011100010 010001011111 11001010101 01010100101 0101111101 0101110101 1111111001 1101010101 0100111 110111011110 11010101010 101111100101 11010010010 10010110011 10111000001 1001100001 11111100010 0001010001 101111 01010100110 10011101010 0111010111001 1111010111 0111111101 0101001101 0111010011 1001010111 11010001001 110001 100110001010 11100011110 110001010011 1110110011 1101000111 0101111101 0001001101 00010111100 110100101 001101 10010110010 11010100110 010101010101 0101010101 0101010111 0111000101 01010101001 10010101001 0101010001 111101 11011111010 10000101010 010001111101 1111111101 1011001111 1101011101 1001110101 0111010111 0101000101 111110 11011111110 11110101010 11110111011 1 1111110111 1111110101 1111110011 1101001001 110100011 0101110101 011111 11010111010 011111010100 010101010100 10011111111 11001110111 10001110101 11010100101 0101110010 1111010110 111111 11110111010 110011111010 1111001010111 1111011111 011000101 1101010101 1111111111 1111110111 1001010011 111111 11111101110 01110101100 11011011010101 1111011101 11010110100 0111011111 0111110100 1111011101 1101110111 100101 01011101011 11001100011 110101110111 1111110111 1111110111 1101011101 110111011001 0101010101 11010111001 1111011 11110011110 11110011110 1111101100011 1111001101 1001010101 10010010101 1011111111 110101001000 0101111011 011101 110011111010 01010000110 1111011100111 1111111111 1111010101 10010011101 1001011111 0100110101 10011011111 100101 01001001110 0101011110 110111110111 1101010001 0101110111 10010010001 0101000111 11110100010 1101110111 1100101 11011001110 11010110010 0111010110001 0101100001 1101100001 1001011101 1101110110 1111011101 1111010101 111101 111100001010 01011111010 1001101011101 1111111101 1111100001 1101010101 11110001101 1111100001 0111010001 111011 010000101010 0100001110010 1001111000101 1101111011 0011000101 10010101101 11001000101 0101010101 1100110101 000100 01001110010 11001000010 110101110111 1101000101 1100010101 1001110101 01000110101 1101111101 10010100001 110101 11010010010 11000101010 011101010001 1111011101 1101000101 11110001001 1101010001 1100011001 1101010111 010001 11110101100 11001000010 110011110101 0111111101 0111111101 0101010101 1001000101 0100110111 0101011101 000111 11110101000 11110101010 011101100100 1111110101 0101110001 0101010101 1101001111 11010010100 1011010101 111111 110101010010 01110101110 110101110111 01001110001 1100011110 0101110101 1101010100 0111011101 1111111100 110100 10010101010 01010101010 1010001000101 1111111101 1011011101 0101000101 01000111011 0111000110 0101000101 1001111 11010101010 01011101010 11010010110001 01011010010 10010101011 10010001010 1001110101 0100010001 0111011111 100101 110101010110 01011100100 110001010101 1101010101 01111100111 100010010001 11010011001 0100011001 11001110001 110111 100110010010 10010111010 0101110110011 0101010101 1111000101 1111010111 0101010101 1101000101 1011110101 010001 11110101110 11010101110 110101010101 1100011001 1110011101 1110110101 0101101101 1111110101 0101011001 110101 00011101010 01011111010 110101011101 0111011101 1101110101 011000101001 01100010101 0101010101 01010010101 100011 11110101010 11111111110 1111111100001 10110010001 1101110101 010101011 1101000111 1111100111 1011011100 011111 110111010110 11110101010 111101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 27
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 510
- Average number of words per stanza: 82
- Amount of lines: 303
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; new, of, and, you, ridge, hour, i, its, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, against, i, whose are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines sleep is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Insomnia;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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