This is an analysis of the poem Dreams that begins with:
A DREAM of lilies: all the blooming earth,
A garden full of fairies and of flowers;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd dedefXfX gegebbbb aXadhihi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010101 01010101010 0101001101 10111101010 1011010011 1101110101 1101011101 0101010101 0101010011 0101010111 1111110110 11110001011 0111010011 1111011000 010011100111 0111110101 0101010101 1101010101 0101011101 0110110101 1101010101 0101110101 0111010101 1101011001 0101011111 1111010100 1101010011 0011111001 11010010101 0011011101 1101000111 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 348
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; of, and, than, that, what, much are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the, with are repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Dreams;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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