This is an analysis of the poem The Dreams that begins with:
Two dreams came down to earth one night
From the realm of mist and dew; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb dece fgdg dheh accc geie fgXg edad fjcj ided ageg gbfb gkfkXcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 11110111 0010111 110100111 11101001 110100101 11001001 1011110101 0011101 10101100111 0101101 1010110001 1100111 1110100101 1100101 1110100101 0011101 10010111 010111 110100110 1100101 01011111 1010101 010110101 0010101 111010101 00100101 001011001001 1010101 1110100101 1100111 010100101 10100101 011100111 1010101 011100011 1011111 111010101 111101 1010010101 0010101 10011111 010101 10011101 110111 10111111 011011 11010101 110101 10111111 010001 11000101 100101 10011111 110101 11110001 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 56
- 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; one, of, and, old are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines i is repeated).
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