This is an analysis of the poem The Dreamer Of Dreams that begins with:
The sun goes down in a cold pale flare of light.
The trees grow dark: the shadows lean to the east:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabab cabdb ccXeac XfXgfXg caccc fXcXecddbcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,6,7,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01110011101 01110111001 11111010111 010010101101 11111100101 101001001001001 0010100101001 11011011101 01011101011 010111001 101011010111 1011101011110 10101001000111 001010010011010 1101110010010 110100100111 111111011101010 101001011111 11101001001010 110010010101 010111101101 11101111001010 1011111101 0101011111 011100100111 0111011 11111111110 010010101 111111001111 1110100110001 111010010 111111100100 11111110010010 10110110101 100110100101 110011010111 111010100101 111100111001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, them, as, we, night, and, good, rain, have are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i, or, we, our are repeated.
The author used the same word our at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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