This is an analysis of the poem The Fever-Dream that begins with:
IT was a fever-dream; I lay
Awake, as in the broad bright day, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXXccddeeff gghheeiijjak ddllaaa mmaaddnn hhjjmmhhiillddll iiiikkeeooddddaaXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,12,7,8,16,19,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111 01100111 11111111 11111101 1111101110 110111011 1011001001 101110111 11001101 101110101 1000100101 001010101 11100001 001110101 11011101 11011101 11110101 111110101 11111001 11000101 110010111 11101011 11011101 11010111 01111101 11011100 11111111 010011101 10011101 111110101 110011101 11111101 11011111 11110111 00110101 10011001 11001101 11010101 11110101 1001101110 010011010 11110101 010011101 011111001 11100101 1011010111 1111111111 101110101 1011100101 1011101111 0011110101 10111101 010101101 101010101 1010010101 10110101 110100101 011100111 01011101 11111101 1010111100 11111011010 1111111110 1010010101 1101110101 11101010010 10101101010 1110010101 11111101 11111111 111011100 0010111111 1010101101 1111110101 111101101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 419
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 75
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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