This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Liv: Care-Charmer Sleep that begins with:

Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night,
Brother to death, in silent darkness born, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcdedebb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1101100101 1001010101 0111010101 01010011001 1101010101 01001110001 1101010111 0100100101 111000011010 01010100010 101010101110 01110101110 1111010101 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 616
  • Average number of words per stanza: 107
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; to is repeated.

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