This is an analysis of the poem And Again My Soul's Dreaming All About You that begins with:

And again my soul is dreaming all about you,
And my heart is bursting and longing for you,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXX XXXb XXbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 101110101011 11101011011 111010001001 11011101001 10111011001 0100111001 110111100110 11011011 0110101111010 11100110111 11010101001 101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; 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 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 you is repeated).

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