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

I had a dream. The habitable earth
Its continents and islands, all were bare... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcddccdeXfghegebhfiX XjbXgeicebahcibXgjgcX cXfXceXXdcXjeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,21,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010001 0100110101 0101010101 0011111101 1111010101 1011111101 11001110101 10001011001 1101011101 1101011101 1101110101 1010110101 11011011001 010100101 01001010111 01010101001 1011000101 1101001010 1111011101 1111010001 11110 100110 01001010101 0100110111 0101011101 11010100101 1101000101 0101010100 1100011101 1001110001 1101110001 1111111101 1101011101 1011001101 11010001101 0111101101 11110110001 1111000101 1111011101 0111110101 1101010011 1110 110111 1101011100 1111011101 1111011001 0100110101 0101010101 1101011100 1101010001 1111011101 1001110111 1001000111 1011000101 1101010100 1100010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 740
  • Average number of words per stanza: 132
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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 are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is 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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