This is an analysis of the poem Variation On The Word Sleep that begins with:
I would like to watch you sleeping,
which may not happen....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXcXd effdg cabcXXXhXhffca geeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,14,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101110 11110 111011 1011101 01010 1110111 11011 11011110 100100101 001001111 010111101 01111 111011010 10111001 110011 0011010 011001 1010111010 110111 01101 0111111 10001 01101 011101 01111110 011001100 1110001 101011010 10111001010 11010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, would, like, to, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word towards is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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