This is an analysis of the poem Sleep that begins with:
Sleep has not visited me the whole night,
Will the dawn ever come? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbcXXbXaXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001011 001101 11010 1101001001 100100110 101 1101011111 1001000101 111110111 1011110 1111111 10100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 394
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Sleep;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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