This is an analysis of the poem O Wondrous Dreamer, With Thy Power Divine, that begins with:

O Wondrous dreamer, with thy power divine,
How all our pilgrim-life thy dream hath told ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaXXbacadcad
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 11010011001 1111011111 1101111111 0101000101 1101011110 11011101101 1101010101 0101001101 1111010101 1101011100 1111111101 1111111101 1111001111 0101111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 648
  • Average number of words per stanza: 121
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; our, we are repeated.

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