This is an analysis of the poem When I Wake Up, The World Recedes From My Sight that begins with:
When I wake up, the world recedes from my sight.
Only in sleep, its bewildering miseries and enjoyment perplexes me! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABcXAB XcXcaXAB XXXXAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101011 10010010010010100101 11000100100 010100010 11110101011 10010010010010100101 0110011000110 11100010001 1011110011111100001 10110110110000100 111101111 110111001 11110101011 10010010010010100101 101010110110 1010010000111 10111101111110 0100110110111 11110101011 10010010010010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 358
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
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; gold, and, him are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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