This is an analysis of the poem The Old Dream that begins with:
NAY, tell me not. I will not know.
Because of her my life is bare,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacbdcbXD aeafedfefDXcbcebdebeD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,21,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111011 01001101 011110111 11010101 11110101 010011111 11110101 010010011 11100110 1111 11111011 11011101 00111101 11010100 10111011 01010111 01110100 11111101 11111111 1111 10111111 00110111 10111111 11111101 11011111 010010101 11111111 01110001 10111100 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 343
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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