This is an analysis of the poem Sleep that begins with:
Thou drowsy god, whose blurred eyes, half awink
Muse on me--, drifting out upon thy dreams,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaabbaabcdcdee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101111110 1111010111 1111100101 11001010101 1100010011 10110011101 0111111101 1101010111 1111011100 01010110001 1101111100 0111010101 0101011101 1011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 590
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Sleep;
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- idea of the verse;
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