This is an analysis of the poem The Way To Dreamland that begins with:
With an angel flower-laden, every day a dimpled maiden
Sails away from off my bosom on a radiant sea of bliss;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba Xaba cacXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101010100101010 1010111010100101 1110101010101110 11100011001 10101101010111010 100011110010110 1111001011101110 11110011001 1110101010111010 1111101001011101 11111110 10111010 10101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (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; he, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word would is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word kiss at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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