This is an analysis of the poem Delia Xlv: Care-Charmer Sleep, Son Of The Sable Night that begins with:

XLV
Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xababbcbcdedebb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 1 1101100101 1001010101 0111010101 0101001101 1101010101 01001110001 1101010111 0100100101 111100011010 01010100010 10110101110 01110101110 1111010101 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 644
  • Average number of words per stanza: 108
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • 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; of is repeated.

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