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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  • summary of Sonnet To Sleep;
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