This is an analysis of the poem Sleeping Out: Full Moon that begins with:

They sleep within. . . .
I cower to the earth, I waking, I only.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abb acccXb Xdde ffeee eee egeg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,6,4,5,3,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101 110001110110 11111011110110 1111111101 0111101110 0101001110 0010010 0010100 00101000100100 1011 10110101101 1001010100010111 10100010001 101110 110010 10110101101 111010101 101101011001 010100101 101101111011 10100111101 00100101011 01100110001001 001001000101 101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, to are repeated.

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  • summary of Sleeping Out: Full Moon;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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