This is an analysis of the poem A Dream that begins with:
Once in a dream (for once I dreamed of you)
We stood together in an open field;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbabcdcbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001111101 1101001101 0111111101 1011110101 110010100101 11010100101 1101110111 1111111101 11111100001 11110100101 11111101101 11011101001 1001110101 0111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 646
- Average number of words per stanza: 119
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; in, and are repeated.
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