This is an analysis of the poem Last Night My Lord Went Away Seeing Me Asleep that begins with:

Last night my lord went away seeing me asleep,
What shall I do now friend, as I could not wake!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABXAB cXcXAB XXXAX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110110101 11111111111 11011110110101010 111110110101 11111111111 1010111101111 11111110 01100100101011011 11101101 111110110101 11111111111 11111111001011011 111010010101110 100100111011010101 111110110101 111111111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
  • Average number of words per stanza: 57
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; asleep, i, and are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word wake at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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