This is an analysis of the poem A Dream Of Venice that begins with:

NUMB, half asleep, and dazed with whirl of wheels,
And gasp of steam, and measured clank of chains,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaabcdbedfbegfheiadjbiahkela jbaalmccXXnacal badkeche mddh docaafbahdga cejajieadbceaebaXecdi pbbe eqhaghkjcbcaeihbcfacgecaneleeqcrlfidflcXak mcbddb abecadkcogqidbefmedeabdXebdrDlaehjfqbbbf drbsdheaedXdifnabbcagebnbgaaacebchhcabdcXrchlaa adadnbeblhlaXecDa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,15,8,4,12,21,4,42,6,40,47,47,2,19,25,3,19,24,47,10,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101110101 1101110101 1101110101 10100010111 11110 11101 1101010100 1011010101 1101110101 1111100101 1111110001 0111010101 1011000101 1111110101 1101110100 0101010101 1100110111 1101100101 10010010111 1101011001 11001010111 1101010111 1011011100 0101100101 1001010101 0111110101 1111011101 0100010011 1101110101 1101011101 0111100101 11110010111 110100100101 1101110111 0111000101 10010111001 110001111010 01110101010 11000010101 110101001001 1111010111 1101110100 10011010101 101100101 1011110011 10010010101 1101010011 1111010111 0111001111 0111011111 01001010101 1110110111 1011010001 11011000001 1110000100 1111110111 1011011100 10011000101 1001000111 1101110101 11110110101 11110101001 1101011101 1011010101 1111010101 1111010101 11010000111 1101001101 1101011101 0111001001 11001010100 10011110001 1101010101 0100110101 1011110111 11010011001 1101001111 1101110111 0101110001 1101110101 0111110101 0101111111 1100010001 11010111110 11110001110 1011010101 1101010001 1101011101 11001110111 11110010011 110010010011 1101010011 11011101110 0111110101 0101011111 1111010111 1101110101 0100110101 1101111101 0100110101 0011010101 1101010111 1111110101 1111101101 10010111101 1101010101 11110111001 11010100101 01010111001 0100011001 1111010111 1001110011 1111000111 11 11010100 1001000101 11010010101 11110100111 0101110101 1101110001 1011110101 0101010101 1110011101 11110110111 1001011101 1011011101 0111010111 1101110001 1010011101 0111100101 100100001001 10001010010 1101111101 11100001001 1011001101 0101011001 1111001101 1101000101 1001011101 1101011101 0101011111 0101011111 0100010101 1111010101 1101010100 0101110111 1001001101 0101000101 1111110100 0101111111 11110010101 1101000101 10001111001 11111100001 1111010001 100111 0111 0111010101 1101000101 0111010011 0101111101 1101110101 1111001111 11011001111 00101011101 0111111011 0100011111 1111010 101 1111010101 1101010101 1011010101 0111111111 0101010101 0100011101 1111010101 11010010111 1001000101 011110111 1100111101 1101111111 0111110101 1100100111 0001110 101 1111100101 0111010101 0100110100 1001010101 0101000101 1001011101 11010011101 0011010101 1011010101 1011000101 1101110011 11011101001 1001010101 1101010101 1111010100 0011010101 1001110101 11010110101 01010110111 0101110111 0101101111 0001010101 11010101101 110110101010 1101010101 11010010101 1101001101 1111011101 1101010101 1011010100 0011110101 01110101001 0101010011 0111110111 0101010111 110110001100 1011011111 0111011110 0111110111 1101111111 1111011111 10001110111 1101110001 1011010111 1100011101 11010101001 1101000101 110010010011 111100100111 01001100101 1101010101 1101100100 0100110101 1111010101 0111010110 10010010101 1101010 101 0101110111 1011001001 0111010101 11001001101 010101011 1101001111 0100001010 0101010101 0111011101 1010100111 1011000101 0111100111 1001011110 1101110101 1011011101 1101110101 1011010101 0101011111 1111011111 1000110101 1101010011 1011110 111 1101011101 1011010101 1001000101 1101010101 0101011101 0111011101 01010101010 1101010101 1011111111 1001001101 1011010001 0111110001 0100110011 01011111000 01010010101 11110110101 1001011111 1101000101 01110010011 1001100101 0101110001 1111010100 01010010001 1100100111 1101110101 1101010111 0101110101 0101110101 01010011101 1001110111 11110100001 11010101101 1111010111 1101010101 1011011101 0100010 110 0101010011 0111010011 1101011111 0110010101 1011000101 1111011111 10010010001 1101010100 11110111011 0111010111 1111010111 1111010101 1011010001 1100100111 1101011001 1011010101 0111010001 1101010101 1011110101 1111011101 1101111111 1101110111 1001001011 0101000101 1001010101 0101001101 10101000100 1111110 111 0110011101 01110001001 0101010111 1011010111 0111000101 0101000111 0111010101 110110011 1111110101 1001111111 10110100011 0101111101 1101110011 11001001100 0111010101 10010111010 0111010001 1111010001 1110011001 0101110111 1101000100 1011010101 1101000101 1011010 110 1101010101 0010010001 1001110001 1001110111 0100010111 11001110111 1101010001 1011011101 10110001001 110100101001 010100111 0101111101 110010000101 1001011111 1011010101 1001000101 1101110111 11001 1111 11001100001 01010010101 11010010101 10010010111 1111010101 1010110101 0100011101 1111010100 1101010101 1111110011 11010100101 0101010100 1101010101 110110001 1001010101 01000100001 01001010101 11010010101 01001010101 1101010111 11010010111 0101011101 1101010111 1101010101 1001100100 0100010101 0111110101 1001010101 01110011001 010110101 1001110111 0111011101 10001010010 0100011001 0101110101 010100100101 0101010101 010100101001 10111111010 1100111001000 10011111111 0101110011 0101110111 0101001101 10001110100 1111101111 1001111101 101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 858
  • Average number of words per stanza: 151
  • Amount of lines: 424
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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, of, with, their, thy, my, into, his, you, i, in, he, to, her, then, faded are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, with, and, thy, the are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines knelt is repeated).

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  • summary of A Dream Of Venice;
  • central theme;
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