This is an analysis of the poem Sleep Flies Me that begins with:
Sleep flies me like a lover
Too eagerly pursued,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababab acacaX dddddd dedede XfXfgfXgfgfgf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 110001 1101010 011101 1101110 010101 0111010 110101 1101010 111101 0111110 110110 1101110 110101 1101011 110101 1101010 110111 1101100 110101 1100010 111101 11010010 011111 0111010 011101 1111100 010101 01010010 000101 0111010 111101 1101110 111101 1111010 111100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 36
- 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.
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- summary of Sleep Flies Me;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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