This is an analysis of the poem Waking from Sleep that begins with:
Inside the veins there are navies setting forth
Tiny explosions at the water lines...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXa XXX bab XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01011110101 1001010101 1111000100101 00010010110110 1010100110111 0111111001101 11111011110 110010001 1111001010100011 11111101010101 11100101011 111110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The author used the same word now at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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