This is an analysis of the poem The Mime Of Sleep that begins with:

My dreams are turned to some disordered mime:
A plot that pandemonian shadows feign...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbX cdceed
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 1111010101 0111000111 1011111101 0100010111 0101001101 1101011101 01111000111 1100111001 1111110101 1101011101 1101010111 0101010011 0101010011 1101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 297
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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 Mime Of Sleep;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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