This is an analysis of the poem Arise! Awake! that begins with:
Arise, awake, O friend of my dream.
Arise, awake, O breath of my life....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaa aXXX XXXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 010111011 010111011 010111011 111001 11011001111 0101111011 0101110001 10110100101 10110001 0101110110101010 010111010000100 0101111100010 1111001001 01011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; o, arise, awake, of, my, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word arise is repeated.
The author used the same word arise at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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