This is an analysis of the poem Watching Unto God In The Night Season that begins with:
Sleep at last has fled these eyes,
Nor do I regret his flight,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eaea bdbd fgfg chch ijij agagXhhhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 1110101 1011101 1110111 1010101 1010101 1111101 1010111 1010111 1010011 1011001 1011011 1011111 1010101 1010101 1010101 10001001 1010111 1010001 1011111 1011101 1010111 1100111 1011101 1011111 0010101 1010101 1010011 1010101 1010101 11100101 1010101 1100011 1110101 1011111 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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