This is an analysis of the poem Dream Town that begins with:
Now who is ready to go with me
Off and away to dream town?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdXd ededXfgf ddddgbbb Xddddcbcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100101 1101011 110101100 1100111 1111011010 01110111 10101011010 1101111 111101101 1111101 011111101 11111011 01010110110 1010101 1110110011010 101101001 111111111 1111011 1101011001 110011001 111110111010 1101111 11011001110 01011011 10100101 1011011 011010111 0101101 110110011110 11001011 10110110110 0001011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 299
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word by is repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word town at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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