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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