This is an analysis of the poem In Sleep that begins with:
NOT drowsihood and dreams and mere idless,
Nor yet the blessedness of strength regained, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXaXbXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1100111110 1101000101 0110111101 1101011101 0101001101 0100010111 11010111001 01011111001 11010010101 1101011101 011001010101 1001010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 524
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of In Sleep;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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