This is an analysis of the poem Last Night I Dreamed Of Chickens that begins with:

Last night I dreamed of chickens,
there were chickens everywhere,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbXcac aaaaadXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111010 1010101 10101110 1010011 10101110 1010111 101001110 1110111 10101110 1010101 10100010 1010011 10101010 1111111 11101110 1011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 258
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; they, my, i, chickens are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.

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