This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 38: This Night While Sleep Begins that begins with:
This night while sleep begins with heavy wings
To hatch mine eyes, and that unbitted thought ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba abba cdc dee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0111010101 0111111001 11011111011 0101001011 0111110101 1011010101 11111011001 1110110111 1111110111 1101010101 1011110100 1101010101 100111101 1101101111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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, in are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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