This is an analysis of the poem Sleeping Together that begins with:
Sleeping together... how tired you were...
How warm our room... how the firelight spread... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbccdb ceeffc dbb Xgga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,3,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001011010 1111101001 111101111 110101101 1101111011 101001101 01111001011 10010001 1101110101 110100101 101100111 00100101111 110111001 110101101 1001001001 110001101 010010101 111100101 10100101 1001011010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; how, it are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Sleeping Together;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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