This is an analysis of the poem Falling Into Slumber that begins with:
Falling into slumber,
In a peaceful sleep relieved......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abcd EdEd AbbbX bfcfbffX Ababb AXXaBBXABB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,8,5,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100010 0010101 11110 01101 1111010 11100101 1111010 1111101 100010 1 1111 1011101 11101 0110010 0010001 01101010 0101 110010 0010011 11111 01101001 100010 1110101 11100010 10111111 01001101 100010 101 100 00100010 1100011101 11111001 100010 1100011101 11111001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word falling at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same words me, removed at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Falling Into Slumber;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
- Analysis of Without It Ending
- Analysis of What It Has Been Allowed
- Analysis of Self Absorbed And Self Obsessed
