This is an analysis of the poem Sapphics that begins with:
So it is: sleep comes not on my eyelids.
Nor in my eyes, with shaken hair and white... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXX aXcd ecae dXff XfXX Xafb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001111111 1011010111 01111111010 11101 1111110111 0100011101 01101010010 1011 00101001110 11010101110 01101010101 10010 1111111101 0111001010 11101001010 0110 1110100101 01011110010 1011001000 1011000 0101111000 0101001001 110111010010 10011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; and, of are repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Sapphics;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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