This is an analysis of the poem Sleep And Death. that begins with:
Sleep puts sin by, as the grave life's despair;
And though bad dreams in sleep may come, the soul...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbabXcXXXbXcXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111101101 1111011101 0101010101 0101011001 1101110111 0101010101 00010111110 10110110011 11010101100 1011000100 0101110101 111100100101 1100110100 0101000101 1101011101 11011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 651
- Average number of words per stanza: 122
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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