This is an analysis of the poem The Dream that begins with:
All trembling in my arms Aminta lay,
Defending of the bliss I strove to take;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcddede ffXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11000110101 0100011101 1011010101 01110111 0101000101 111101001010 0101010101 010101110 1001010011 11011111 1011000111 11111101111 1101111111 1111010011 1111010101 01110001000
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 328
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word her is repeated.
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