This is an analysis of the poem A Dream Of Long Ago that begins with:
Lying listless in the mosses
Underneath a tree that tosses... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbcccb dddeaaae aaafddXf gggeggge aXahccch gggehhhe hXhidddiXeeebcccb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100010 10101110 10111100 0111001 10111010 10100110 10101010 1010101 10001010 10101010 1010110 1001111 11111010 10111010 00101010 1010111 11111010 100101010 11101110 1011101 10111010 10101010 00101010 1000101 10101110 10101110 10101110 1010101 10101010 11100010 00111010 0110101 11111010 1001011000 10110010 1010101 10100010 10101010 00101110 1100101 100111010 00111110 1000010 1011101 10101010 10111010 10111010 0010100 10001010 10101110 00111010 0010111 11101010 01101110 00101010 1000101 11101010 01101010 11111010 1010101 10111010 11101010 11101010 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; of, and, with, never are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word with is repeated.
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