This is an analysis of the poem Sleep that begins with:
O Sleep, thou kindest minister to man,
Silent distiller of the balm of rest,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdececff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1111010001 1001000101 11001101111 0101110101 1101110011 1101110101 1101000101 1101010101 1111011101 1110010001 1101110101 1101111111 1111011101 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 627
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; when is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
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