This is an analysis of the poem Dreamer, Say that begins with:
Dreamer, say, will you dream for me
A wild sweet dream of a foreign land,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcXc dedeeeee fdfdcgXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10101111 011100101 110100101 010101101 111110101 110100101 011100101 1010101100 10101101 010100101 10101101101 111010101 1011101101 1001001001 110010101 010110101 10101101 110010101 1011100101 010100111 110010111 1100100101 1100100100 10100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 310
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word dreamer at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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