This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Lxxxi: Rest With Your Dream Inside My Dream that begins with:

Already, you are mine. Rest with your dream inside my dream.
Love, grief, labour, must sleep now....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbX XaXX Xbb bXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 01011110110111 1111111 101101001 110111111010 111010111 1011011101001 110101001101 1010101001010101 0101111011001 111010101101 11010011111 11100101111110 1111111010 110111011101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; eternal is repeated.

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