This is an analysis of the poem Records that begins with:
I. A DREAM
At nine years a sickly boy lay down...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcac deedccfccXfcXfgbXhbghighi b bjkbjkgbjcljXlhcfhfchXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,25,1,24,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101 110010111 1111011101 1101110101 11010111 0111011101 01110011010 0101100010 01101010101 0111011101 0111110011 01111111 1100111111 101010011111 0110101100 1100010011 01100110001 011111000101 110000111 11110100101 11011101100 010111110 1101110101 10101110001 01001001101 011001011 100101001 011001101 01010110001 010101011 1010 1100011101 110001000101 111101111 11011100101 11010110001 1111010001 0111011001 0111110101 1001010111 01011101110 11010101000 1111110101 10110101010 100100100 1101010101 101101110 010111001 1101110101 100101111 01110101010 11011001 11011111110 11111011010 10000000101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 447
- Average number of words per stanza: 85
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; and, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words at, the, and are repeated.
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- summary of Records;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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