This is an analysis of the poem Yet A Little Sleep that begins with:
Beside the drowsy streams that creep
Within this island of repose,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba abba cdecde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 01010111 01010001 11110111 11111101 00010101 01010111 11011111 11011101 01001101 11011110 100101010 01011101 11010101 111001010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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 Yet A Little Sleep;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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