This is an analysis of the poem A Swimmer's Dream that begins with:
Somno mollior unda
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abcbcdddc bdbdeeed fefeeeee Xgcgcddgc bcbchhbc bhXhiibh Xjaaja heehe Xbkbkbkbk gdgdgdgd dldlXXdl babababa admXmXggm bhbhnnbh bXbobbboXbabaiiba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,9,8,8,9,8,8,6,5,9,8,8,8,9,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010 1 101101110 11100111 111101110 11100101 101101110 101011010 111101010 11111111 111111110 11110101 1010110010 11111111 1011101010 1011101110 10111010010 11111101 101001110 10111111 111001110 10110111 11100111 10110111 11111101 11100111 1 111001110 10100111 111101010 11100101 11101111 10101101 101101010 11101111 0111101110 11110101 10111011110 11110111 011110111 10100101 0101111010 11110101 111101110 11110101 101001100 11101101 101001010 111001110 1101011010 011101111 1 11101010101 111110100111 10111011101 11111111111 10111011101 010101010101 111010110101 11101111111 11111110111 11101011111 1 1101010 111101 1101010 010101 1111110 0101001 1101010 111111 0101010 110101 1101010 1000101 01001010 111101 1101110 110101 1111110 110101 1101110 111101 1101100 111101 11110110 110101 0111110 111111 1111110 010101 1101010 111111 1101110 110101 1 0101001010 010100101 0111001100 010100111 10101111110 1101001010 101101010 10111101 0101001010 011101111 1001010010 010110101 1111001110 0111001110 1111101110 110100111 01110111110 1101010111 1111111010 111110101 0101101110 1101001110 1111001110 0111001101 0111101110 111101111 0101001010 010101110 1101111010 1111101110 1101101110 110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 290
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 128
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; and, of, as, her, dream, so, that, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, a are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases sighs, dies, light, strife connect the lines.
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