This is an analysis of the poem The Ideal that begins with:
A sad, sweet dream; it fell upon my soul
When song and thought first woke their echoes there,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedecc ababff bgbghh fificc gbgbjX jXjbff hkhkdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111010111 1111111101 1011000101 1001100101 10001001111 011111111101 11110010111 01110100101 00110110111 10110000101 0101010111 0111011100001 1111100111 1111001101 1111111101 00110010111 1111010101 101101011101 0101010101 0101111101 1101011111 11001011101 0111010101 111101110011 1011011101 01001101101 1101111101 01010011101 1111110101 101101100101 1101110101 1011110111 1001010101 1011110111 1111000101 110101100011 1101011101 11110101010 01110010101 1111010101 11101110101 1101111000101 0111110101 1110111011 1101010101 010011011001 1001010111 010101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; i, in, know, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is 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 Ideal;
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