This is an analysis of the poem A Day Dream that begins with:
On a sunny brae, alone I lay
One summer afternoon;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cded fgfg bgbX ahah iaij babj kaka lblX hghg dgXg ebXb kXka aaaa caca mgmg nanXXmhmh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 101010111 110101 01010101 001101 001011101 110101 1010110101 1101001 01011101 0111001 11010101 110101 11111101 111101 01011101 11011100 11110101 011011 11110101 0101001 11010101 111101 11010101 000100 111010101 101110 11010101 101100 01111101 110101 110001001 0100101 11110111 010101 01010001 0101010 11000101 110101 11010101 111101 010101010 110001 0101010010 100111 10010111 110101 111101110 110101 110111001 011100 010100101 110101 101010101 111101 11110101 010101 110101001 110101 11010101 110101 01010101 010101 01010101 010111 11110111 111011 11011111 0111010 01010101 110101 11010011 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less 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; i, thousand, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase there connects the lines.
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