This is an analysis of the poem Only In Sleep" that begins with:
Only in sleep I see their faces,
Children I played with when I was a child,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbb XccX abXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111110 1011011101 0111001110 10010111 100110010 111100111 111111101 10111101001 00111011110 11111101 111101110 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, with are repeated.
The author used the same word only at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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