This is an analysis of the poem IV. 'To make my days impatient with unrest' that begins with:
To make my days impatient with unrest,
To filch the quiet of the dark's repose,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbabaab cdcdXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0111010001 0101000101 1001011111 0101011101 10011111001 0101010101 1111010111 1101010101 0111111101 1101011101 0100110101 1101010101 11111111100 10110111010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 302
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; my, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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More information about poems by Robert Silliman Hillyer
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- Analysis of XVII. 'Voice that art life to me, I almost hear'
- Analysis of XX. 'To walk beside the river in the dawn'
