This is an analysis of the poem The Dreams That Came True that begins with:

I saw in a vision once, our mother-sphere
The world, her fixed foredooméd oval tracing,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbXc aadbXebe fgfghh ififjj kfkfii iXiabb igigdd Xiliii fgfXmX dmnmee hghgXg ifiXcc ggggaa okckgg mfmfff XXddgg Xaiaaa pipigX qaqXdn dhdhii bfbfii rnrnss adadaa igiggg ghghdd fgfgpp mrmrdn gfgfaa ggggmm iXilaa fdXdoc hihikk gggggg mpmpff ririgg gbgbmm g
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,8,24,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
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  • Amount of stanzas: 74
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 272
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 459
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, right, he, she, for, i, her, speak, thou, thy, on, his, my, asleep, day, after, night, or, shout are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words from, this, he, what, the, that, a, i, and, she, then, asleep, her, thy are repeated.

    The author used the same words and, she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same words light, reign at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of The Dreams That Came True;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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