This is an analysis of the poem Dreamland that begins with:
By a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AABBaXcc ddeefffeXgaA XgaAeehhddaabbiijj jjXXbbgXggdd AABBaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,12,18,12,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101110 10111010 1110011 1011101 11111110 0110011 00111101 101101 10011101 11111101 011111010 10111110 10100101 0010101 1110001 10101010 1110010 1110111 11101110 001001010 1011110 1110111 11101110 001001010 10101010 1001010010 1011101 10110101 1010111 1101 11101010 01111010 10100101 10100001 1011111 11101001 11101110 0100001110 10111110 10101010 101011011 11111010 1010010010 111110010 100100101 001101100 11011101 011000101 110111110 100111010 10101110 10111010 1110011 1011101 11101110 0010011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 494
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, by are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words from, their are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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- summary of Dreamland;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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