This is an analysis of the poem Dreams that begins with:

Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream!
My spirit not awakening, till the beam... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcdeecdffggggffhhiiffjX aakkjjff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111100101 11010100101 01010011010 11111001010 1101010100 0101011110 1101010101 0100110001 1100110100 0100111001 01111101010 11010111010 11110010111 10101010101 11000111101 0101010001 0111010110 0111111111 11110110110 01010111110 1111110101 11010011101 0101110101 1111000101 11010110001 1111111101 110101001 1101011101 1011010001 10110100101 0100010011 00010011101 0101111111 11100101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 785
  • Average number of words per stanza: 137
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; i is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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