This is an analysis of the poem The Dream that begins with:

It was the morning; through the shutters closed,
Along the balcony, the earliest rays...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbddedXfeeXghieXhhXjaXakfejlcXmbbaaeamdklihldamXnoboXbXXdemejbefhhXleaXmhXXenceedhahaanghmXhXXnen
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 99,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101010101 01010001001 0111110100 1101110111 0101110111 1101110011 0101001111 0111100101 0111111101 0100100101 0111111101 11110110111 11010110110 1101110111 01011001111 1111111011 11011011111 1101011000 111101011 1111110101 1101110111 1001011111 0101110111 1101111111 1101111111 11010101001 1111010101 0111011111 0101000101 01111010101 1101101100 1001111000 1101011001 01011111100 11000001001 1011000001 01010001111 1001111101 0111111101 11010111101 11010100110 1101001101 1111110101 0111010111 1111010111 1101110101 0100010101 1001111111 1101010011 111000101010 0101111111 1101110001 1111110101 1111010001 0100111101 1111010011 11011001100 1011011101 1101011111 0111010111 111101010101 1011010011 1111110111 1101110111 1111001101 1011010111 1101010101 11110100101 10110111010 1111000101 1111001101 11111111110 1111010101 1111001101 1101110111 1111011100 1111110111 1101010100 1111000101 0101010100 10110101010 0101011111 11001010100 1111011111 0111001101 1111011111 1011010001 1101010111 0100110111 1101110101 0100110101 1101010111 1110011111 1011011101 011001110000 0101010100 1100110101 1110010101 0111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4275
  • Average number of words per stanza: 800
  • Amount of lines: 99
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; me, she, and, i, how, ', that, my, by, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, the, and, i, our are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).

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  • summary of The Dream;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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