This is an analysis of the poem Come Sleep, O Sleep! The Certain Knot Of Peace that begins with:

Come, Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace,
The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abababXbcdcdee
  • 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: 1111010101 0101010101 0111010001 101001010111 0101110101 0111011111 110111010100 1001010111 1101110101 0101011101 0101010101 1011110101 1111011101 10011110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 630
  • Average number of words per stanza: 118
  • 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; of, me, and are repeated.

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

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