This is an analysis of the poem The Love In Her Eyes Lay Sleeping that begins with:

The love in her eyes lay sleeping,
As stars that unconscious shine, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXbccbbccXdXdedffbbffegeghghhhhhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01001110 1111101 11001110 11000101 1111100101 00100111 011111 1010101 1100101 111101 100101 1101111010101 01001100 1111001 11101010 1100101 1100100110010 10100101 111101 111101 1100101 010111 010111 1101110111001 11011110 1101101 1010010010 1111101 1110101001 1100101 110100 110101 110101 010001 110101 110001110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1276
  • Average number of words per stanza: 219
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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