This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xvi: Happy In Sleep that begins with:
Happy in sleep, waking content to languish,
Embracing clouds by night; in daytime, mourn; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdXdeeeXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10011010010 0101110111 11111011110 1011010101 11111111110 101010101110 111111011 1111111000 11010011010 01110001010 11110101010 101111000110 11111111110 11110111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 635
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; in, of are repeated.
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