This is an analysis of the poem The Dream-God's Realm that begins with:

I wandered down Sleep's vast and sunless vale,
Where silence and Cimmerian darkness lay...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cXdcXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1101111101 1101100101 1101110111 0101010101 1101011101 0111010101 11011011001 1101010111 1101000101 11001010101 1101011011 11110101001 01110101110 0111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of The Dream-God's Realm;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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