This is an analysis of the poem The Magnetic Lady To Her Patient that begins with:

I.
'Sleep, sleep on! forget thy pain;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdcbcdb XeaefabXfb Xgbghbbbhb Xhbhibebie aXdcjXbdjX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1110111 110111 110111 11011111 101101 010011101 11011001 11111111 01 1 1111111 111111 111111 110101101 110111 11011111 11110100 11010111 11 1 11100100 011011 011111 011111010 010111 01111001 10110111 101111110 01 1 101100110 111101 1111010 01110111 010111 01011101 11010101 111100001 01 1 11011111 101101 010111 101100101 1111111 11111111 11111101 01111101 11
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 276
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on, thy, and, forget are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, forget, its, what are repeated.

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

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