This is an analysis of the poem A Nightmare that begins with:
When you're lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is
taboo'd by anxiety,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdefeeXdgXdhdagbgiXdXXacafcacjkeXldhdmcacXajaXjljjahXlgkgklmclckihk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 70,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010010111010 1010100 1011111010110010 0110100 111011001000100100 100101 111001111011111 10100101 10100101111101 10010010 1111111110111 110111010 1010011001001111 0110010 11100110100100110 10010 1111010010010111 111010 1110010110011110 110010 11111100101100100 10010 10100101100110101 10110 11100110111100100 11010 10100111111111 11110010 1111101110101101 10010 101101111101111 1110010 111011001001101 0110110 11101111111111 1111010100 10111111111111 11111100 011111011011 10100110100 1110111100111111 100100 111001100100001001 10000 0010010011110110 110010 110010110110111 01100 11001000101100111 010011 1010111010011 110111011 001001111111 10101101110 101011101001101 11101100 011010110110110111 110 111011010011010010 010 1010010010111110 1111110111101 10110111110011 111011110111011 111110111010011 0110110100111100 10010 10101110111110 11011010111110 110010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3327
- Average number of words per stanza: 599
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, and, you, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, your are repeated.
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- summary of A Nightmare;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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