This is an analysis of the poem Unsated Memory that begins with:
Emerging from deep sleep my eyes unseal
To a pursuing strangeness. O to be... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcabc defdef eghegh ijaija gkagka lmnlmb omeXmo gkmgkm cpccpp jgojgo Xgbagn jeqjeq Xbmcbm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0100111101 0001010100 1101011111 0101111101 1001011101 11000100111 0111101101 10101110101 11110001001 0111010111 0100010101 1101010111 1101011101 100110111 1100110101 10010011101 01110011101 1110011101 1101010011 0101010111 0111001111 1001011101 0011110111 11000110011 1111100111 11011001001 01101010100 1101010101 1001000101 1101011110 1011111100 1101111101 1011011100 0101010011 1001010011 1111101101 1100010111 1001000101 10010001100 1101010100 1101001101 10111100100 1100011111 11010001001 00111010101 1101110101 1001110101 1111010100100 1101110101 110100101010 0101000101 110010011 011101001010 1001001100 1111000111 0100110101 0101010111 1001111101 1011011001 11001110100 1101010110 0101001111 1111010111 1001010111 1101111001 01010010100 0111010001 01010010011 1101110101 01011011101 1111011101 11010000101 1101110111 01011100001 1110001110 0100011011 1101010111 0011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words yet, the are repeated.
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- summary of Unsated Memory;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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