This is an analysis of the poem A Sea Dream that begins with:
Why did I dream last night, I wonder, about the ship
Ledore...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX aa bbb aaa ccc ddd bbb eee ddd eXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011111100101 10 1101000101010111 1100110010110111 11101010001001001 1011010111111101 0111011100111111 0111101010110111 1011110100101101 1100101101011011001 1110111111111101 110111110011111 000101010110111 11101001010111101 110101010111111 111100100101011111 11010010101001001 011110111111101 11010101100101011 1011101000111101 0110011100010011 011010010100111 101101111101101 1001001010101001 111100110111101 1101001011110101 1110100110101111 1011111010010111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, or, of, in, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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