This is an analysis of the poem Our Eunuch Dreams that begins with:
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Our eunuch dreams, all seedless in the light,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbcbbc cdcd X eeaeea eaea X ffgffg agga X hhgiig iijXhj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,4,1,6,4,1,6,4,1,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1 1101110001 0111010001 1111 1101001111 1011010001 1011 01011100011 11111100001 0101010011 1111011001 1 0011010101 11010011101 101101 1111110111 11001110011 100101 1101110111 0111100101 1101011111 10001011101 1 1001011101 110111111 110111 1101011111 0101000101 110111 0101010001 1101110101 0111010001 1101110111 1 0001010100 1101110111 101101 0111010011 11110100101 000111 1110010101 1001111111 010001 1110110101 1101110111 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; their, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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