This is an analysis of the poem The Unchanged that begins with:
When all this maniac dream is overpast,
And earth from her nightmare wakes at last,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbabcc ddeeffbb ccgghhhhaagg iii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,12,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010110100 110011111 101101011001 1111011101 11110100110 111100111010 110101001101 11011111110 1101110101 110101100101 0101011101 0101011111 01010010111 01110101111 10011100001 0101010101 11011101110 01110101110 1101010111 1011011101 1001010101 0101010101 1101001111 1001110001 11010101001 1011000111 1101011111 0111010111 11010110110 110110011101010 11110100111 11111101001 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 387
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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, no, or, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, or are repeated.
The author used the same word still at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Unchanged;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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