This is an analysis of the poem Forgiven that begins with:
I dreamed so dear a dream of you last night!
I thought you came. I was so glad, so gay,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111010111 1111111111 1101010101 1101110101 0111110101 0111011111 1101111101 11111101101 1111101111 110101101 0111101101 11110111101 1111111110 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 618
- Average number of words per stanza: 125
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, so, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, of are repeated.
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