This is an analysis of the poem The Dream By The Fountain that begins with:
Thought-weary and sad, I reclined by a fountain
At the head of a white-cedar-shaded ravine,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbc dede eXeX Xfdf ghgh chch aiai gaga hhhh ecXc gcgc bcbc baba haha gaga aiai jeje dcdc Xhgh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111011010 101001101001 1011110011010 101011111101 111011110111 1011001001 1010010110011 001001111011 11011010110 101011001001 11010010110 101011111101 10010110010 01011011001 10110010110 01101101011 11011010010 01001011001 11011010110 1101001001 110011010010 100101101001 1011010010110 01011010001 010010110011 110010011001 011010111011 01001011001 010011111010 101011001001 111010010010 11011001001 11100110100010 11001001001 10110010010 01101101001 1010011010010 1011101011 100011010110 01101111001 11010010110 1101011011 10011111110 11111111001 1111110110010 010111110001 11110011010 001001110111 110101011101 10111101011 111110100011 11001111001 11110011011 01001101011 1111011011011 01101011011 11111111010 11101011001 10010111010 1111011001 111100110010 11011001001 0010011111110 001111001001 1111101010010 01011011001 1111011010110 111111001011 10101110110 1111101101 010010100110 110111001011 01010110110 11011101001 11010010110 101001001101 11011111100 11101101101 10110110110 11011101011
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, of, and, thy, thee, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words bare, the, i, of are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase sighed connects the lines.
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