This is an analysis of the poem Only A Dream that begins with:
METHOUGHT I saw thee yesternight
Sit by me in the olden guise, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabba XcaXX dceeX Xfggf eXhhX dcgXX dcddX bceeX bcffX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111100 11100101 01110111 100101011 010101 11111011 011111001 11010111 10110111 111111 11101111 11110101 11110101 11110101 111111 11101101 110110101 11011111 11011101 111111 11110111 01111111 11010101 010100011 110101 100111011 11101101 11011110 1110011000 1100111 11011101 011001101 01110101 01010111 110111 111111010 11111101 11001011 11011111 111111 00111101 10110111 111101001 11111101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thee, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, we, the are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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