This is an analysis of the poem When I Am Asleep And Crumbling In The Tomb that begins with:
When I am asleep and crumbling in the tomb, should you come
to visit me, I will come forth with speed. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXabXbXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111011100001111 0101101101 1111010010101010 11111111001011111 01111101011011100 1101011111 110110101001101 010101111101 111110101100111 111110110111111 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 600
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, you, your, reed are repeated.
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