This is an analysis of the poem People Sleep To Keep On It that begins with:
People sleep to keep on it...
All their yesterdays they permit....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AabAaCDCaEe AabAFCDACaEe AfbAaCDACaEe AabAXgCDACaFe AFGFAHAHAFGFAHAXCAACAACAACAeAHAHAHAH
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,12,12,13,36,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010110 11101101 1 1010110 100100100 111 0101 111 1 010111 1 1010110 1100101 1 1010110 10110111 111 0101 1010110 111 1 010111 1 1010110 0100110 1 1010110 111111 111 0101 1010110 111 1 010111 1 1010110 1010100 1 1010110 0 01010101 111 0101 1010110 111 1 10110111 1 1010110 110 0110101 11 1010110 11 10010100 11 1010110 110 0110101 11 1010110 11 10010100 111 0111 1010110 111 0101 1010110 111 0111 1010110 111 0101 1 101010110 11 0101010110 11 101010110 11 0101010110 11
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 280
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 83
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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; on is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word people at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of People Sleep To Keep On It;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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