This is an analysis of the poem Only A Dream that begins with:
Only a dream!
Her head is bent... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abbccddbb Aeeffggbb Addeehhdd AaaeebbaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001 0101 100100100 1010010101 001011101 1100110111 10100101 1110101101 010101101 1001 10101 101011001 111110101 00100110101 1100111101 0101101101 11010111 11011101 1001 10101 010110101 1010011111 1010100101 110100111 10010111 10110101 10100101 1001 1101 100100101 1100100101 111110101 0010110101 0010100101 1100100101 100101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 303
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; he, she are repeated.
The author used the same word only at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Only A Dream;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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