This is an analysis of the poem A Dream that begins with:
I dreamed that I ws dead and crossed the heavens,--
Heavens after heavens with burning feet and swift,-- ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX XbcB bdXd abbB baXX XbcB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11111001111010 101010010111 111011110111 11110111110 1111110111 1101010101 1101011101 0111010101 1101111111 01010110011 11010101101 1101010101 1101010011 1101010111 1101110101 0111010101 101010110111 1111010101 1101010011 11001101010 1111110111 10010100111 0101010101 0111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; i, and, heavens are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase heavens connects the lines.
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