This is an analysis of the poem Losing Sleep that begins with:
If you're losing sleep,
What is it that you think over? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbAbXX AcAXcc ccdXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101 10011110 101101 10011110 110010 0110011 01101 10110111 101101 1111 110110111011 01011011101 01101111 0111001 1110100 1010011 110 011001011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word perhaps is repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Losing Sleep;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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