This is an analysis of the poem The Two Dreams that begins with:

I WILL that if I say a heavy thing
Your tongues forgive me; seeing ye know that spring... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccdebbffXcc cgghhbbccijbbffj ibbdeiihhkkbb ccccbbggffiiiihhXc ffdebbXjjj bbhhllccffijbbbbffccmkcciic cbbccbbnnbbkmXoiiiippccf fiiaaddbbXpffiill qqbbggffrriibbjjjjpp jiXbbbffccddiiqqcc bbffijqqddbbfff fnnppijrrccqqXpmmj jccXpnnhhXbaabbppb baakmffiijj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,16,13,18,10,27,24,17,20,18,15,18,18,19,10,98,53,19,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1010110101 110111011101 1111010101 11100010101 0100110101 1111110111 0111110101 0101001111 1100110001 1011111100 0111000101 1011000011 1101110101 11011011111 111101100 1011110111 1101010101 1101100101 1111011101 0111110111 1101011011 11100011100 1010010101 1101110101 1111010011 1101011101 0111010101 1101110111 0101011100 1101010111 0101110101 01001001101 0101110101 1101010111 10111100101 0110110101 1101010001 1101001100 1101010101 1101011101 1001110011 1111010100 1101010111 1011100101 0111010101 1011011110 0101010101 1100010001 1101010111 0111101111 11001010101 1111011111 1111101001 1011111100 1111110101 1111110101 1101011101 1111110101 10111101101 1011111011 01111100111 0111110111 0010111100 1111110101 1101110100 1101110111 11001010111 1111110100 0101001111 1101011101 1100111110 0100110100 0101010111 11010100100 0011010101 1010010101 0100111111 1100010100 1101011111 1111110111 1111101101 1000010100 0101001101 10111011111 1100111110 1100110110 1111110101 0101010101 1101110101 1101011101 1011000111 1111110101 1111011111 1010110111 1111011100 1101011111 1011010101 1011011101 1101110101 1111010101 0101001111 1011110001 1101010101 0011010111 1101010111 1111010100 101100011111 1110101101 0011010011 1111010111 1111111111 1111110100 10100110110 1101001100 1111011100 011110001 11010001111 110110001 0111011101 1011101100 0111110111 1101110111 1101110101 11001110001 10110110001 10011010100 111000110101 0111111011 1101011100 0101010110 0111000101 0100110101 0101000101 1011111101 0111111100 1111010101 1111011100 1101111101 0101100101 0111000101 0101010101 1111111100 1101001101 0101011101 1111010100 10110000101 0111010111 0101110101 1111011111 10110100001 1101110111 1111110101 11111100101 0101010111 1101011100 11011110101 1100111100 11110111101 1001110001 01011110101 1101111101 0111010001 1101010011 01011100111 1011110100 1111011101 1001110101 0101110101 010110101110 1111010111 11000010101 0111011101 01111001001 0101110001 1100010101 1111011011 0100110011 1000111111 0011110011 1111101111 1011011111 10110111101 1111010101 1011000110 1101011111 1111111100 1101111100 1111110101 1111010111 1101010111 0111111111 1101111100 1101010101 0101110001 1001010111 010010011101 01010010111 0011110111 0101011001 1101011001 1001011100 1110111010 1111111101 1111111111 01011011111 1111011111 1101110101 10111010011 1011111100 0101010111 1011111100 1111110100 1011110110 1011011101 1001101111 1111111011 0101110101 1101010111 10110110101 11100111001 1011110101 0101011101 1011110100 1111111001 1011110001 11011011100 1111101111 1011010111 1001000111 1101001111 1011111100 1100011101 111111111 0100101110 1101010101 1100010100 1101010001 1011110011 11011100011 0111011111 110100011 1101001101 1011001100 1101011101 1101000111 1001101100 1100110011 1101011101 1111010111 1101011100 1101001101 1001011101 1101110111 1101010001 1011011101 1011010100 111101100 1101010101 1111011111 1101111111 0111111101 0111110101 1111011111 1111110111 1101010111 1111001100 01110001001 1111110110 11010111010 01011111110 01011011101 1101101101 1011010111 01110110111 1001110011 11001100101 1111010111 111111011 1111000111 1001010011 1101111111 1101010101 1001011111 10101110111 10011101010 11011111010 1101111101 1011011101 1001010001 0101010111 1111011101 1101010111 1111110101 1101001101 1101010111 1111011110 11010101101 0111010111 1101011111 1111101101 0111111101 0111010111 1101111111 1101111111 0011110101 1111011101 1101011101 1101110111 0101010101 1111010011 1011010001 0101110101 1011000111 01010100111 01110101101 1101110101 1101010101 1111010101 1100110001 10011011011 1111010011 10010100101 11111110001 1111011111 0101111011 1111011101 1011010101 1101011101 0011010101 1011110111 1111010101 0011011101 1011000101 1111011101 1101110111 1111010001 1101001111 1100110101 0101010001 1111010101 1101010101 1101010011 1111011101 1011111101 1010010111 1101011111 1011010111 1011010111 1111011101 1111010101 1011101111 1111000111 1101110101 0111011101 1001110111 1111111101 1111011111 1111011100 1011110101 01110011101 1001110011 1100010111 0101010011 1001011100 0101111000 1011010100 0011110101 0100110100 0101001101 0111010110 1100011111 10110101011 1111010111 11010101110 1101110101 1011011011 1101010100 1100110001 1111011101 11011101101 1011101100 1001010111 1111110100 1011010110 0111000111 110010010101 0101110011 10011010101 1101110111 1011011111 1011110101 1101110011 1101111011 1101010101 1001011100 1110010101 0111111111 110110010011 1110011011 1111110101 1101101111 1101000111 1011011101 1011000100 1111111101 1101010111 1001011011 100101110 1001011011 1111111101 01101110101 1011110101 0111011101 0011100111 111101101 1011110011 1111000111 10011100100 0001010101 1101011001 1011110001 1011100101 0101000100 1101010101 0111000100 110111100 1101010110 1011110111 1111011100 0101111110 1100111011 0011111101 1111010001 1111001100 1101110101 1011110111 1101010101 1101010111 1101111100 1111000101 0111010011 1111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1037
  • Average number of words per stanza: 198
  • Amount of lines: 442
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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, of, to, her, love, have, you, s, with, i, as, my, there, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words seems, the, one, some, and, so, made, i 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.

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  • summary of The Two Dreams;
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