This is an analysis of the poem The Dream Of The Children that begins with:
THE CHILDREN awoke in their dreaming
While earth lay dewy and still: ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac adad efef ghgh idiX jkjk jljl emeX kbkb ajaj nene iXie hhhh emem aXaXXmmmm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010010110 1111011 110010010 0011001 01110010 01111001 11101010 100111 011010010 100111 010010110 101011011 00101010 1101101 01101110 1011001 0111110011 01110010 1010111111 11010110 010010110 01101111 11111110 01100101 11011110 10101101 110011010 010101 11110010 010111 11101010 0100111 11101010 1100001 11111010 10111011 111010010 0101101 11001010 11001011 01010110 0100101 1010101010 0101001 01011010 01010110 10101110 11010010 111110010 10110111 1010010010 1010010010 010111110 1101101 1110101010 11000111 11101010 10101001 10111110 01001001 01001110 0100101 11101110 11111011 011010111 1101001 110011011 1111001
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of 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 words from, they, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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