This is an analysis of the poem The Dream Called Life that begins with:
From the Spanish of Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXabccbaXdXXbXXeefffddeebbccbgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,31,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 00100101010110 0101011111 1111111111 0011011111 0111010101 1011010011 10110111111 101111010010 1101010111 1101110101 1001110101 01010100111 1101010110 11010100111 11001110100 1100011101 0100010101 00110110111 0011001011 1101110101 0111110101 1101110011 1101010111 1101010101 1011111111 1101001111 0101001101 1101010011 101100111 1001111101 10110000101 1100011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 671
- Average number of words per stanza: 124
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, that are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines wake is repeated).
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- summary of The Dream Called Life;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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