This is an analysis of the poem That Never Was On Sea Or Land that begins with:
I dreamed that same old dream again last night;
You know I told you of it once, and more:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbb ccdcc ecfXX Xbebb ghhhX acfcc icXjc hXacc chghh dcakc cljll mhchX jeXee imkmm aXckc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111110111 1111100111 01110110101 1101110101 1011010101 1101010100 0101000101 1111011100 1011011101 0101001101 1101111101 1111011101 011100111001 1111011101 1111010110 1111010100 0111110101 11110111001 1111110101 11111100001 1100011101 1101110111 0101111101 1111010101 1111100001 1110111111 010011011001 1111111101 1100111101 1101001101 0101110111 1011010111 1101010100 1101010101 0101010111 11111111011 1111011101 1111010111 1101010100 1011010101 1101010101 1111110101 0101111101 1101110111 1111110101 1111111000 1111011101 1101101101 1101000100 1111011001 1111010101 1101010111 1011011110 0100010101 1101011101 1111011111 11110101011 11111101001 1101011101 1101011101 1101010111 0101010111 1101010111 0111011111 1101011101 0101010101 0101110101 1101010100 11001010101 11001110101 111100111000 1111010101 0101011111 1101110100 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 89
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and, i, my, talked are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, and, as are repeated.
The author used the same word and 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).
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