This is an analysis of the poem Fantasy that begins with:
OVER all the dream-built margin, flushed with grey and hoary light,
Glint the bubble planets tossing in the dead black sea of night. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccbbXbddeeccff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011101011101 101010100011101 1010011101010111 101010101010111 101000101010101 111011101010111 111111101000101 101011101111111 1010110010101010 101010111010111 1110111010001000 10110101010101010 1010101011101110 1010101010110010 101010101010101 101010101000101 101010101011101 101010011010111 10100100101010101 0010001010001001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1325
- Average number of words per stanza: 228
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; , with, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word now is repeated.
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- summary of Fantasy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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