This is an analysis of the poem The Cry Of The Dreamer that begins with:
I am tired of planning and toiling
In the crowded hives of men;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdCD adadcdCd efefghgh gigicXCD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010110 0010101 110010110 11011001 111101110 1111101 10101010 10101001 111001010 00110101 00101010 0011101 00101010 11110101 10101010 10101001 11111110 10100101 101010010 10101001 10101110 1011101 0101110 1010111 11001110 00100111 111001110 1010101 1111011010 10110110 10101010 10101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, of are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word day at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Cry Of The Dreamer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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