This is an analysis of the poem The Shattered Dream that begins with:
I WAS somewhere off in Europe spending money like a king,
Owned a yacht like J. P. Morgan's, when the 'phone began to ring; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXcX ddeeXX bXcXcX ccffcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111110101010101 101111101010101 11101010111111 101011101110101 11101011100101101 110111101110001 111110011110101 001010101111101 111110101111101 001000100011100 111011101110101 1010011010010101 111010101110111 11111101110011 110110101111101 011010101111110 11011101110101 111010101111001 101011101010111 111111101110101 111010101110101 01111111111101 111110101110101 111010011111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 372
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, my, that 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.
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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- summary of The Shattered Dream;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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