This is an analysis of the poem The Old Man’s Dream After He Died that begins with:
from CAWDOR
Gently with delicate mindless fingers...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXXacXXdeXdf bfddbXccdXXbcfgXbhcadhgg ceXXgXce
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,24,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010 1001001010 1001001011010010100 0010011101010111 0100101011 0111100010100011 111101001 0010100111101010 100110010 101001111101011 0100110 1111110010111 111100111 10101110101 01010 00101 11010010011011 111110010 01010011010110110 01001100 0101010100011101010 11101110 011011101011110 111011001 100101001011100 1011000101011100 1001101010 011001000110100 1010001101 1011001101101100 10010010100 110101000111000 10010101110 101001101000111010010 0101001 1001010110010110 1010101001 1010111010010100 11 1011001 0100100101001100110 010011001 1101011111000011 01001110 00100101001001101 110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 710
- Average number of words per stanza: 122
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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