This is an analysis of the poem My Dream that begins with:
Hear now a curious dream I dreamed last night
Each word whereof is weighed and sifted truth.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cbaXddcdcc cdaeaffeffeggehheghcfhhgaiiaajajagagXaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,10,40,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010011111 1110011101 1101010101 1101010001 0111010001 110100101110 1101011101 1101110111 0101111111 1101110101 1110010101 1010110001 1101110101 1101101101 1111110101 1101010101 1111110101 1110110111 1101000101 1101010101 01010100101 1101010101 1111110001 1111010111 1110010101 11001011100 1111111101 1100110001 0101010101 0100010101 1111011101 110010101101 11010110001 1101011101 1101011111 0111000101 11010010001 101101101 1101010101 1111010111 1101110101 0101010001 0111011101 0101010011 1101011101 1101011101 0101011101 11010011101 1101111101 1101111101 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 548
- Average number of words per stanza: 100
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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, his, he, them, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
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- summary of My Dream;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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