This is an analysis of the poem Dream Barker that begins with:
We met for supper in your flat-bottomed boat.
I got there first: in a white dress: I remember...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXX Xcdba dedXd cXa eff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110011101 111100111010 1000111111001 010010111011 00101110111 101111111 10011100101 0111011011 00101101110110 11010111111 1110100111 1111101 1111001 01110111101 11111111 111011111 11010101010 11110011101 111110011 11011111 1110011111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The author used the same word and 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 jim is repeated).
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