This is an analysis of the poem Mr. Hammond's Parable--The Dreamer that begins with:
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He was a Dreamer of the Days:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbbbaXacdedXccaX bbdddcffcfaacaacXggcchh cchhaXbbhh X agaXiiaX jhjhkckcllllaXbb ffccXhee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,16,23,10,1,8,16,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11010001 10010101 01100101 100100101 010111111 100111110 100100101 110100101 10011111 0011110101 11101101 110100111 11010101 100100101 110100111 10011111 10101001 10100101 1010101 01100111 010100101 11110111 01110111 100101101 10011101 10100101 110111111 0100100111 111000101 101110101 111100101 100100101 011101010 1110010101 1010100111 1001001001 10111101 111010101 10000111 11110111 110110111 100101101 10010101 10100101 01110100 10110101 10100100 10110101 11010101 1 010100101 110100101 100100101 11101111 11100111 110110101 1010100101 11100100 11110111 010100101 10100111 110100101 011100101 1100111101 1010100101 110100101 110111101 001010100 1010010111 001101001 1111101 10011110 1100001001 1100100101 01010001 10100101 010100101 1001111 10100111 001101110 1011100101 10100101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 366
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, to, as, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Mr. Hammond's Parable--The Dreamer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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