This is an analysis of the poem New Year's Eve: A Waking Dream that begins with:
I have not any fearful tale to tell
Of fabled giant or of dragon-claw,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abababcc dededeff ghXhghcc iiiiiiff adadadcc ddddddhh ieieiejj akakakhh ddddddff leXelejX ddddddff iaiaiadd lililiff mjmjmjaa jfjfjfee jnjnjncc gdgdgdoo cjcjXjdd pipipiff eiXXeiii qcqcqcddXfhfhfhii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010101 0101010101 1101010101 0111010101 1101010101 1101001101 1001010011 1101110101 1100111101 0101010101 1011001111 0111010101 0111001011 1101011111 1111010111 1101111111 1101011101 0101010101 01001010101 1101010111 1101110101 11110101011 010101101001 1011000101 1101111001 0101001011 0111100101 1011010101 1110010101 0101011101 1001011111 1010010101 1101011101 0101011111 1111010101 1111100101 1101000101 1101110111 1111010101 10110110101 10010001010 1101001101 110100101010 0101100101 11010111010 0101110101 0101010001 0101011111 1111010101 1101010101 1101011101 1101010101 0101110101 1100100101 1001010101 0111110101 1101010101 0100110101 1111110111 1011110001 0111001011 0101111101 0101111001 0011010101 11011010111 0101010111 11001111111 1111011101 110101101 0101000101 011000111 111110101 1101010001 1111110001 1101101101 1101010101 11110111001 1000110111 01010100110 11110100110 1101010111 1001010101 1011010001 0101000101 1101010111 0101010101 00111101010 11111111110 0111011101 0101000101 1100011111 0001011111 1111010101 1101010101 10001010111 0101110101 1101011101 1001011111 0011011101 10110010101 1110011101 1101011101 11110101010 00010001010 0101010011 1111010101 1001011111 0111010111 1101010111 1011010001 1000111101 0111111111 1011011011 1101010101 111111111 1011011111 1001010101 1111010101 0101010101 0101110001 1111010101 1101000101 1111010111 1011010101 1110011101 0111010101 0101010111 0101100101 11110101001 0101100101 110111111 1100010111 1001010101 0101011101 01011111010 10110111010 110111001 1101001101 1001110101 11011101001 111100101 0011010101 1101010101 0011010111 11011101001 01010100101 1101010101 01010001001 1101011101 1111011101 1111011101 000100100001 1001000101 00011000111 110101010 10010101000 0111010101 1011110001 1101011001 1001011101 1101010101 01010010001 1101011101 1101000101 0101011101 0101001101 11010111110 01010101110 1001010101 0101010101 0101011101 0110000111 1111110101 0111110101 1111010101 10111100111
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 336
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 176
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; to, they, and, as, she, ', it, but, ye, her, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, of, the, but are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.
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