This is an analysis of the poem Resurrection, Imperfect that begins with:
Sleep sleep old Sun, thou canst not have repast
As yet, the wound thou took’st on friday last; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbbbccbbddddXaeebbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111110 1101111111 11110111011 0101101101 1110100111 1011111001 110101010011 11110111011 1101011111 10010111101 0110110111 1111010100 1111111111 1101110101 1011010010 010011010110 11011100100 1101110111 1001001000 11000010101 11110101001 0101011001 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1053
- Average number of words per stanza: 189
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; sleep is repeated.
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