This is an analysis of the poem Because I Cannot Sleep that begins with:
Because I cannot sleep
I make music at night....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabccadeeceaXdabaXbbbXXXXbdXXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 31,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101 111011 1110101 11101000110 11101110 10001010101 010101011 11010110101001 0110111100110 0110111000110 0100100100100101 01010110 011110101 0100101 011100101 100101010001111 111110110101 11110101 000100010 11110001010 111101101010 11111010 01101011000 11010110 1011010011 010111 11101011001 1010001010001 1011001010 1001010 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1214
- Average number of words per stanza: 224
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, you, who are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the, you, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines other, faces are repeated).
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