This is an analysis of the poem When My Dreams Come True that begins with:
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When my dreams come true--when my dreams come true--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbccbb ddeebb X ccffbbXbbaabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,6,1,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1 1111111111 1110111000011101 01011100010001 001011101010111 11011101010001 1110001011111 111111010111 01010101110101 01000101010101 001000101110111 111001101110100 110001011111 1 111111110101 01010111010101 11110111010001 101100111010101 111111111010101 010101011111 1111111111 11010100011111 01000101010001 11010101110101 11001111010101 11001011111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, be, to, and, true are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word be is repeated.
The author used the same word when 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 true is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word true at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase true connects the lines.
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