This is an analysis of the poem Sleep Of The Body The Soul's Awakening that begins with:
Every night Thou freest our spirits from the body
And its snare, making them pure as rased tablets....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbcaccXdebfcedXefgga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011101100010 101100111010 100110101001 1111010011010 1110011010110 111110101100 11011111111 10101111111 010010011010101 11111101101 100001001111 1010001010010 111101101010 10001010010001 00100100100001 11010011001 011000101111000 10100100010011 10010010110 101010111 111001010001 111100010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1080
- Average number of words per stanza: 201
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or, of, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word at is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines snare is repeated).
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