This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet To Sleep that begins with:
O soft embalmer of the still midnight!
Shutting, with careful fingers and benign,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcccbccdcd
- 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: 1110000111 1001010101 11111000001 1000100001 1101010111 0100111101 1100111101 0111010100 111101101 0111010101 11010010111 01110100101 101100011 110110011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 593
- Average number of words per stanza: 104
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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