This is an analysis of the poem A Dream that begins with:
I dreamed I was a spider;
A big, fat, hungry spider;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabcccb ddddbbbd eeefeeef aaadbbbd XXXgeeeg eXeXeeed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 0111010 0101010 0010101 00101110 11101010 11101010 0010011 11101010 0100010 10100010 1010101 10101010 01111010 11101010 11101001 11101010 10111110 10100010 10100101 10101110 10101010 11101010 0010111 10100010 10101010 10101010 1110011 11101010 11101010 00100010 1010101 101011100 101000100 111111100 1110101 10101010 11101110 1101010 0010101 11111010 1110111 10101110 1110101 10111010 11101010 11100010 10100111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; spider, demon, weeping, pleasure, capered, dying, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, with, and, such are repeated.
The author used the same words and, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines spider, demon, weeping, pleasure, capered are repeated).
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