This is an analysis of the poem And The Seventh Dream Is The Dream Of Isis that begins with:

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white curtains of infinite fatigue...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XabbcbXbaXbdbc XebXbbfgf X ba hdfibcXgh jhba X abckXXebaXibebbXjbabbbbkjXjheahbXbabbbbabbebaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,9,1,2,9,4,1,46,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 110010001 1010010100001000110 110010100 010000100001 00100100100010001 10101001110100 1100110101 0110101100110 0100011100101001 1110010100110 100101101100101 10101001001 01010101100 101011011 0100110111010 111010111001001 10111110010010 1101110101000100 111100101010 010010110010 0101110101 1010010010011 101101001 1 010111110010 010100111001 1010100010000110001 1010100101000101 01000100010101001 0111100110 110101010 111101111 11010010101110 111110111000101 11100110 111010101100010 111001010010 1110010001110 11100100010101 1 01001100101101 010010111101 10101001001010010 1010110100110 11101010110101 010110010010 0101110001101 101110101000010011 100010100110110 1101011010100 1011010101010001010010 11001010110010110 1110110010100111001 10101000111100 101000101100 1010101011100 10011100101 100100100011 100111010101 101011110 11111001010 1110111001010010 1010010100100 110100010101111 1110101110111010 111111010010 10101010001001 111100100110 1101111001001 11011011010101 1001001010100110 110011111110 10100111101001000 1100100100100 111010100100010 1010010000100010 1111000101110 01010010001001 1010110101011 111011001001 1100110101110 111011011111 10101111001101 10100111110010 1010011001011 110010001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 491
  • Average number of words per stanza: 87
  • Amount of lines: 87
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, year, when, their, she, shoeleather, we are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, when, the, there, and, she, shoeleather are repeated.

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase shoeleather connects the lines.

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