This is an analysis of the poem The Sleep-Worker that begins with:
When wilt thou wake, O Mother, wake and see -
As one who, held in trance, has laboured long ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbc abbc ded ffe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111110111 11110111001 1101110001 0111110100 0111010111 1111010101 1100010111 11001011100 1111111101 1111000111 1111100101 1101011101 1111010001 1100010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and is repeated.
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