This is an analysis of the poem A Vision Of Climate that begins with:

I dreamed that I was poor and sick and sad,
Broken in hope and weary of my life;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcacadX efeffgggghX ciciigggXiX gjgjjcgcgdX ikikXhihXll
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,11,11,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111111111 1001110011 110110011 1111000111 1011110101 01100010111 0100110111 1011010101 1001110011 11010111010 01100101100 11011010111 0101001111 1110110101 1111000100 01011101001 11110110111 1101010001 1110110101 1101011111 11000100110 011110111100 1101010001 0100010101 1101000111 0100010101 0001000101 1101001101 1101011011 1111010101 0101011010 11011111110 11100101010 1010011001 1101001101 1100011001 0101110101 0111010101 0101110101 0010011111 0101011101 0101010001 11010111010 00010000010 1111111101 11001111101 1111111111 0101010111 1110011111 11101001 1011111111 1011010011 1111011111 100110110010 11010011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 460
  • Average number of words per stanza: 87
  • Amount of lines: 55
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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, my, i, ye, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words from, the are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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