This is an analysis of the poem Falling Asleep Over The Aeneid that begins with:
An old man in Concord forgets to go to morning service. He falls asleep, while reading Vergil, and dreams that he is Aeneas at the funeral of Pallas,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbccddeeeeffddggddhhhhddiijjffkkllmmddjjffeennoojjeeppeeoojjnnaaeennmmggjjeejjddddjjqq
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,86,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111011010101010110111010111101001010001010101 0101110111 1101010101 01000101010 10010101110 1011011101 1011001101 1110111011 11010011110 01010111001 0111011101 1111110101 1101000111 0111110101 1101010111 0111010101 0101010101 11100000101 1101110101 1101011111 0101110101 0100010101 1101010101 0101010101 0100011101 0101010011 0111110101 11010110111 0111010101 0001011001 1111010101 0101011111 0001010101 0101011101 0101110101 0101011101 1001110101 1101000111 1001010101 0101110101 0111010101 0101011101 0111111111 11011010101 1101011111 0101010111 1000111011 1101111101 1101010101 0101010101 1001011111 0100010101 1101010101 1001011101 0110010101 1001010101 1101111101 1001110101 0101111101 11001010101 111111101 0101010101 1101110101 0101010101 0101011101 0100010111 1010011011 0101010101 0101101111 1110010111 0101010101 1001000111 11010010101 1011111111 1111010101 1011010100 01111101001 1111110111 1101010111 1001010101 1111110101 0101010111 0101100111 0101010101 1011010101 0101011101 0100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2005
- Average number of words per stanza: 361
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; yuck, and, their, i, bird, his, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, his are repeated.
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