This is an analysis of the poem The Tower Of The Dream that begins with:

Part I
HOW wonderful are dreams! If they but be ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabccdefecgcfcdhhfbf Xaijifbklmbfabanfofdgcmepg gbbnpi geobdXhpapodefq ppcccrdiqb piqcfrcasq Xsthepciafbpecgciprcfchf cfanqgietlregiphrfecperddem uXmpbjbbacccg atteqacubkccbc epbXcpkkcpepbbggpcdibcimobe kccososo ddoosssaO cdgdgssggdd acacoiiO
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,26,6,15,10,10,24,27,13,14,27,8,9,11,8,35,12,16,24,30,13,6,7,7,5,4,4,4,33,30,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11 1100110110 1111011001 0111011111 1101010101 1101010111 1101010011 1110011101 0110011101 1111000101 1101010011 11000100001 010100100111 0111010111 1101010001 1011111101 0101000101 1111010101 01010011001 1101010101 1111110111 101110001 01010100101 0011011111 1101111100 1101110011 1101101111 1011000111 1001010101 1100011111 0101110001 0011010101 0111110101 0101011111 111101000 11010101101 1110010101 1001010101 01011010101 1001010101 1001011101 1111010011 0101000111 1001011111 0111110101 1101010101 1111111101 11110101001 1010000111 11010100101 1101010111 11001010101 1100111111 1011111111 1001110001 11011001101 1101000101 00110001110 11010001001 1001010001 11010110101 1011010101 1001110101 10110101101 0011010100 11001110101 11111111010 0101001101 1001010101 1111111111 01110001011 1011001101 1111010101 1011100101 10111101001 10110101010 1001010111 1111111101 0101011111 01110001010 110011100101 1101010101 1111110101 0100110110 01001101001 1011010100 10110001010 11 110100100100 10001010101 10110111001 1011010101 0111010101 010010000111 1101010111 110101011101 0101110101 1111110101 01001001101 10011100111 0101100101 1101110101 0101010101 1001011101 01010001001 110101011011 0001000101 10011111001 1100010101 1100011111 1111111111 0101111111 1011010101 1101010011 1011010111 11110101010 0101010101 1101010111 0101010100 11000110101 10110001101 1111110101 11011001001 10011100101 1001111101 1111010111 1111010111 01110101001 11010100011 0101001101 1011110001 1001110101 0100100001 110111011 1101010101 100010101 11000101001 1011000101 1101110011 0101000110 1101110101 01010010101 1001010001 1111011101 1011001101 1101111101 0100010001 1100011101 00110010101 11100110111 0101010011 1101010101 11011001001 1011011101 01010011101 10011100010 0101010111 1101001101 0101011101 1001000101 01001110101 1101000101 0101010101 1001110101 0111010101 1101010001 1111010101 1001010101 1001011000 1000111111 1101100101 1001001111 0101000101 0101011111 1100010101 0101001001 11110100101 0101010101 1101010001 1101011101 0101010111 0111000101 1101011111 1101001101 1101010011 0101110001 1100011001 1001100100 1111000101 11000111001 0011111101 1101000101 01 101101 01111 1100110111 100100 1011 101100 1001 11011 11111 01001011001 101001111011 1100100100 0101100100 101100 101101 1001001 10010 11011 11011 11011 01111 100100 101100 1101001010 11001011 01111001011 01001111001 101001 00100100 1011 1011 101001 111111011010 110110111010 1001001 11 11101100101 1001100111 1010010101 1011000111 101010001001 01001111100 0101100101 0111010101 01101111101 10110111111 1111010011 010101011 0101010001 0101010101 1100010101 0101100101 0101000101 0111010111 0111011101 0101011101 1101110101 01010000111 10001010101 1101001111 0111010111 01010110101 01001011101 1101111110 11110110011 1101010101 0111100101 1101010111 1101110001 1111110101 1111000111 0101001001 1101110111 1001110101 11011101010 01010010101 1101010011 0011011101 1101010111 1100010101 01110111001 0101000101 01001110111 01011100101 0101001101 0111000101 0101011101 1101010101 01001011111 0101110111 0111000101 1101010111 1001010101 1101010011 0100011101 1101110101 0111000101 110001 01011101001 1101010111 01011100011 1111110111 11001010111 0101110001 1111000100 11010100011 1000111101 1101011101 0101110101 1001010111 1001011001 1111010101 01010010100 0110000111 01110010101 1000010101 01101010101 01000010101 1111111101 0101010101 1001110101 00110001001 1111010001 1111110011 01001000101 1101010011 0101110101 1011110001 1100011100101 1111110111 1101111101 11010111001 1011100111 0101010001 1111110101 1101010101 0101110101 0101110011 1111001101 1101010111 1111110111 11010111010 0111110101 11011101101 1101011101 1001010101 11010101101 0101011101 11010110010 1101011101 0111110101 11110001001 0111110111 11110001001 100101011011 1111010101 0101110011 11010101101 0101010111 1101010101 111101110110 1101010101 1111011101 1111110111 1101110101 11 11110000101 1001001101 1101011101 11010011101 0101010101 1 011011 011111 1111011011 0110101 1101001 1001011001 1111 01011011001 1111 11101011001 10110 011110 110110 01101 11110001101 01001011001 001001001 1111 01111011001 1010110 011110 110110 1111010101 0111001101 11001011101 10101000101 1101010101 1001011101 0011011111 1101000101 01110101001 10001010101 1101011011 0100011101 11110101011 1101100111 01010110101 0100010101 1101110111 1001111111 1110110101 01010111001 1101111011 1110010101 1111110111 0101110001 1101011111 1111010111 1101010101 1001011101 0111011101 01110010101 1101010111 1111011111 11110101010 1101010111 0101110101 11110100111 111100010010 01011011001 1101111101 0101010101 1111110001 0101011101 0111010101 1101010101 1111011111 10111101001 10011001101 10011011101 1111110111 0011010110 11010100101 1101110111 1101101001 00101010011 0101111101 1011000111 1101001101 1101010101 1011011101 0101010101 11010001010 11010100101 1100010101 1111110101 1111001001 1101110101 0101010101 1101011011 11001100111 1111000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 35
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 568
  • Average number of words per stanza: 97
  • Amount of lines: 466
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; of, and, in, to, with, love, this, lost, ever, for are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, , and, could, beautiful, ah, this, of, in are repeated.

    The author used the same words but, i, at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines , life, him, ever, sleep are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words sleep, at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases , eyes, awoke connect the lines.

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  • summary of The Tower Of The Dream;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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