This is an analysis of the poem A Song Of Dreams that begins with:
A voice came to me from the night, and said,
What profit hast thou in thy dreaming...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXdeXcdcfcadgXdheaijh baeaXhhfjdfdiXehaXah gcXXhcdeXha
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,20,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0110100111 110110110 000111 1001100 1110101 011111101 11010001 11111001001 111101 000110100 110110110101 1010110011101 11100011110 11100011 1101010101 01100111 1111011 11010 10011010 0101001 011000 010010100 110001101 11101010 01111101 1111101 0110111110 11011010 00101111111 00101 11110101 1111010100 1010100101 1001001 010010 110011011 101101000101 1011111011 011111 1100101 10101110 001000010001 10100111 0100111101 11000101 10100100100 0010100 11010010 00101101 1111001011 00100011 1011100 10111001 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 640
- Average number of words per stanza: 122
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thou, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of A Song Of Dreams;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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