This is an analysis of the poem The Sun Was Slumbering In The West that begins with:
The sun was slumbering in the West,
My daily labors past; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbc daeadfdf XadaggeX XhXhXaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011100001 110101 11011101 110111 01010111 010101 11110111 1011101 101011101 010101 11011101 011101 11010111 110101 01110101 011101 101110101 111101 01011101 100001 11010101 100111 11111101 110001 101011101 011111 11110111 010101 11110101 010101 01110101 1111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 258
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, you are repeated.
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