This is an analysis of the poem The Dream that begins with:

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Our life is twofold; Sleep hath its own world,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bXbcdaefggchijkalahjmnbofi X dkopemjhkgojqdikdrboadoafiofosejlocqfpggogabibbl X GqXbjXobXjqflbqoloXkXeegelokaq X GfgooaiffaXbfbfjkbakj a Gjggcbssafbqneobbo a Gbbbbghhjeeghfajkebihog X GbbfhgefXffeodfXk X Gqjhbokfibjfepfbbl XXrgojc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,26,1,48,1,30,1,21,1,18,1,23,1,17,1,18,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 1101111011 01000101100 1101011011 1011010100 1101010011 1111010101 1101011101 110101101 1101110101 0100011011 1111000100 1111000111 11000101110 0100010101 1111101110 1110010111 0101011111 0101111111 0100010111 10011010001 0101011011 0101111111 1101010111 0101100101 01001010000 11001100110 1 1111000101 1001010101 1101100001 1101001101 1111110101 1011011101 011111010001 1011001101 0100110101 1100010101 0101000111 1101010101 1101010101 1001111101 1101101110 1101111100 1101110101 1011100101 0111010101 0111010101 1111001001 1111010111 1111011111 0101011101 1111110100 1101101100 1101011101 1011001100 1101010111 0101011101 0100010001 1101010101 0100011111 1011100001 0100010100 1101110111 0101110011 10101011111 1100111001 0101010111 0101010101 00110010101 1111111111 1110110111 01010111010 1101001111 1001010101 1100010011 1 01110010011 1111010101 01110110000 0110110101 0101111101 1111001110 1111110111 1111110111 0111011111 000101101 10011100101 1111011111 1101011101 0001010111 0100011101 1101110111 11111101011 1101110101 1100011111 1111011111 1110011101 11010101001 010010001 1111010101 1101111011 0111110001 11010100111 0101010111 1101011101 11100110111 1 01110010011 0111011001 01001110101 1011110111 0111011111 0111110101 1101110100 1101010100 1011011111 0101100111 1000010100 1011010001 0101110101 0111010101 1101011101 0101010101 1001010101 11000110001 1101001011 1101110100 11011001010 1 01110010011 0100011101 1011010001 0101000101 1110010100 1011010101 0101110101 0101101101 111010001 1001010101 1101011111 1111110111 0100111101 1101010011 1101011111 110110101010 1110010111 0101010001 1 01110010011 01001011111 0111000101 0111111111 0110011111 101010100111 01011101001 1000110101 0100010111 101100101001 010010001 1111010101 1111110111 0101111011 1111011111 1111111110 10110100101 1001010101 01010011101 11010011110 1011010011 1101011101 1101111101 1 01110010011 0100011111 1101000101 1100010101 1111110101 1010011101 0100010101 0101000101 1110011000 0101010000 1001110101 1011010101 0101000101 1001010101 1101000100 1111010100 1001010011 1 01110010011 01001011101 0101010101 1011011101 11110101001 0101010111 0111110101 1001011011 11110111110 1001010011 1111010101 1111010001 1011000101 1101011101 0101001100 0101011101 1100010101 0101010001 1 1101011101 0100110101 0111010111 1110010001 0101010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 483
  • Average number of words per stanza: 93
  • Amount of lines: 215
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; and, they, of, his, hers, her, him, he, she, in, it are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, they, the, she, he, of, nor, to are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines home is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase while connects the lines.

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  • summary of The Dream;
  • central theme;
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