This is an analysis of the poem A Mother's Dream that begins with:
As I slept one night I saw this dream
Which further increased my vexation...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX bb cc db ee eX bb Xd ff aa bX bb bX gg XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111101 110011100 11111011101 101101000101 1001100111 100011001011 011011101 1111110101 1010011010 10010101110 101010001110 11111001 0100111 10011111 1110101111101 01110011110 1010111111 11111011 1010101011 10100111011 10111001011 110011111 101100101 1011100101 1101001111 111001001 101101011010 10101111010 1110111000 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 77
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, with, they, in, me, you are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines way, was, were, i, am, me, talking are repeated).
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- summary of A Mother's Dream;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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