This is an analysis of the poem The Many Who Have Slept that begins with:
More naysayers of those yesterdays gone,
Are heard to be sighing about what's going on....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcabdcdefcXceec X XXfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110011011 110010011101 1100010 1011010101 1010100011 010101111001 0100001010100 100101 010101101000 011100101001 110100101 0101101001 111010101 00001 1111000110 101111 0010010010111 10111 111010 01011110010 1011 11101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; to is repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Many Who Have Slept;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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