This is an analysis of the poem A Dream Of Bric-A-Brac that begins with:

C.K. loquitur.
I dreamed I was in fair Niphon. ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XaXbcc ddaaeeffgg hhiijkjkXccclelegjgj clclXfmfnnhhccoo jcjclollo aaffppooeekkkmmkkp lpllafafooXX mmoojjaacXcckXkXcc oojjllqeqeooccooXpXX ccbbeemmejjeeXeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,10,20,16,9,18,12,18,20,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1100 11110110 01111101 01011000 01010111 01010101 01110101 11111101 01110101 11111100 01011111 11110111 01010101 11011111 10011101 10110111 10010101 11010101 01010111 11010111 11010101 11111111 10111101 01110001 11110100 1100100100 10011101 01110111 110010101 11111101 11011101 10110101 11010100 01010101 11010111 10111101 100010101 110101001 100100011 01010101 01110101 10010100 100101001 11010101 100111101 10110101 01110101 011100101 11010101 01110111 11011101 011111001 11011101 11111101 11011101 01011111 11010101 01010001 11000110 111101011 00111101 10010111 11010101 01110101 11010101 01110101 011101010 011101010 01010100 10010101 011101001 100100111 11111101 01011101 01011101 11111101 01100110 11010101 11010111 11010100 11011111 11010100 11010111 11110110 11011101 101100101 11101011 00110011 11110101 11110111 11111101 11110111 110011101 10110001 10110011 100111001 01010111 11011101 01010101 11010101 10010100 100100100 100100101 11010101 01010101 101010100 100100111 11010100 111100111 11011101 11000111 11010111 110011001 11010111 010010111 01010101 11010101 01010011 01111101 00100100111 01000111 01010101 11010101 010000101 10010101 11010101 01010100 100111010 1101111 1101011 01011101 11111101 11011101 11000101 11011101 11111101 111100101 01010101 11110101 01010001 11111101 11010111 1001101101 10011001 101000100011 1000011010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 479
  • Average number of words per stanza: 84
  • Amount of lines: 146
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; i, and, what, her, so, my, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, i, a, they, who are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rs is repeated).

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