This is an analysis of the poem A Dream, After Reading Dante's Episode Of Paolo And Francesca that begins with:
As Hermes once took to his feathers light,
When lulled Argus, baffled, swooned and slept,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXabcbcdedeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101100101 111010111 1101011101 1111110101 0101010101 1100011101 1011000111 1101011101 1011010011 1001011101 0111110111 1101001111 1001111101 110001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 607
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; so is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word so is repeated.
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