This is an analysis of the poem A Dream-Song that begins with:
The stars are spinning their threads,
And the clouds are the dust that flies,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXA aaaA babA caca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111011 10110111 10111001 101101001 0100101 0111001 10111001 101101001 01011001 1100101 110101111 101101001 10110110101 01101011 0101101101 101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word arise at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of A Dream-Song;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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