This is an analysis of the poem Sleep And Poetry that begins with:

As I lay in my bed slepe full unmete
Was unto me, but why that I ne might... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaaXb bbbbccdXeedddddddd ffggaahhbbcciiXXjjeedd kkllaa kKggcckKiimmnniiooccjjeebbbbaXeXjjdXfh ffppkXggiiq qjjfheeddddaajjaajjddkkjXg grriiXihhddjjeeiieeppiiqqddddaall jjccsstatffddggcckkddjjjXii qqjjeeXjlloojjggaaooeeaatl tddeeddjjllcclljXjXoojjj jccdXbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,18,22,6,38,11,26,33,27,26,24,18,22,43,27,42,4,22,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1110111110 11011111111 11111111101 1101110101 111111011010 10110101010 10110101010 11110011010 110100010010 10110101110 00110101110 1101010001 11010101000 1011100100 1101010101 1111110011 1100010101 11000111010 10010111011 10100001010 110100101010 11010010101 1111010111 1101001111 1011000101 11110011110 11011111110 10010111010 01010111110 01110101110 10011100110 10011101010 10110011010 1011010100 0101001101 1101100101 1111010101 010110110010 11110001110 01010111010 10011111010 0101010001 10011010101 1101010011 1101010100 11110100111 1101110101 1011010111 1111110101 11101011010 11011101010 110111111 11110100100 0111011101 0111010111 0101010111 1101010111 110111111 11110100100 01110101101 1011010111 1101010101 01001111101 01001111010 01011001010 10110110111 010001110101 10011001001 00010010101 111101001010 010111001010 0101110101 1001010101 11001011100 1111010111 01101000010 111011101010 10010101110 01010101010 1011111101 01001110101 101110001001 010110001000 11110111010 11111101010 1001001111 1011011101 1101001101 1011110100 1101010101 01011101001 00110011001 1011000101 0100011101 1001011110 0100110101 0111000101 01010001101 0101101111 1001010011 1110111101 11010111101 1111100101 1011010111 01010101000 1111010111 0101111001 1011011110 1111011101 10110101010 01110001010 1011011101 0001010001 1111110101 0101010111 1101011101 11011101011 01010100101 0101110101 1101010101 1001010101 0100011111 1101011100 1001000101 11010111100 0010000101 1111011111 1111010101 1111010001 0101111101 10000110001 1101010100 11010101001 110100101010 01011111010 1101100101 1101000111 1100010111 1111010111 0101010101 0100010101 00111011101 1001010011 1001010101 1111011111 1101010111 1111011111 1010011101 1011010001 0111110101 1111000101 1101110101 11000101001 1101010101 1011100101 111111001 0100110101 1101011111 11110101001 0101110101 00010101011 010111101 1101011101 1101001101 0111010101 01011100101 1001 011101 00011011101 0101010101 1111010101 1101011111 0101111111 0011010001 10110100010 010111001010 0101110101 10001111101 01010110101 0100010101 0101010001 1101011111 0100010101 10110100110 0101110101 1011111101 11000101010 10110011010 1101011001 1011111101 0100010101 1101010101 11010011010 0101010101 01001110101 1001010101 0101010101 0101010101 1011011101 0111100101 0101110101 1101111101 0101111111 1101010101 1101010101 0101000101 0101100101 11000110001 1011011101 1001100101 1011010101 010111 1111 0001011101 1101010011 11010011101 1101000101 1111010111 1010110101 0110110101 0101000101 1110110101 0101110101 1011010100 0111011101 1101111101 1111011101 1101010111 110001011110 1101110101 01010110100 0101010001 1011010011 1011000101 1001111101 0101101111 1111010111 1100010001 1001010111 0100101101 1101011000 01001101010 010101001010 1111010111 0101000111 0101010001 1111000101 1101100101 0101010110 1011111100 0101010101 1101010011 010101001 0101110101 1101010101 10101000101 1011000111 0101010101 11001110101 1101010100 10010101011 1111010101 0101011011 1001011111 1011010101 0101011100 11001010101 111010101 011101011 1110010101 0111110101 1111101010 00110100001 1110010101 1101011101 1111010111 0111111000 1101010001 1101011101 11011101001 101101111 0111110110 0010101010 0111111001 0101000101 11010110110 111001010010 1110010001 1111111001 010111010010 1111110001 0101011111 0100010111 1011010101 01111100101 1011000101 0101011101 01010011111 10011001111 011101011 1101111101 0100110101 1011111001 1000111111 0101000100 0100110111 1101111101 1101110111 1011001011 1110011111 10011111101 0101101101 11011001011 110011111 1101110011 11110101000 1101011101 1110110100 0100 110111 11001110110 1001001101 10111001101 1111000101 1101010101 11000101000 01011101010 00011111010 0101111101 1111010101 01010001010 101111010011 1101010101 0101011111 1111011101 11001011101 10010111010 11110111010 1011110100 10110100101 101110111 10010011011 01000100101 110011100 1101010101 01110000101 1111110100 0101010001 00110101010 01010101010 01010101110 100110011010 0101010101 1101110111 0100111101 1100010101 1111010011 1101011101 0101011101 01101011101 0101010111 0101011101 01001010101 01001000111 0101011101 1111010111 0110000101 1101110101 1101000101 1101010101 0111110101 01010110001 01010101001 11001001101 0100111101 1011010111 1001000101 1111010001 10010001010 10010101110 10000101001 01010101001 10111101010 00010101110 11001101010 0101110011 0101111011 1101110101 1011111101 1101110101 0101011101 0101110101 11010101001 1011110001 0010111001 1101010001 1010000101 1101010111 0100111101 1100110101 0111100101 010100101 1101111111 0101011111 1101111111 1101010101 0111110101 0111000101 1111011111 0100011101 111100101 1101010101 01
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 911
  • Average number of words per stanza: 166
  • Amount of lines: 414
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, than, more, of, it, and, to, his, in, with, they, some, be, as are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, more, of, the, a, some, to, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it, impossible are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases it, impossible connect the lines.

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