This is an analysis of the poem The Hashish Eater -Or- The Apocalypse Of Evil that begins with:

Bow down: I am the emperor of dreams;
I crown me with the million-colored sun...

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 49,64,40,20,72,42,119,75,21,23,15,50,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
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  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2023
  • Average number of words per stanza: 357
  • Amount of lines: 590
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; i, my, of, and, to, his, on, streams, million are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, and, the, nor, of are repeated.

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