A Dream, After Reading Dante's Episode Of Paolo And Francesca by John Keats: poem analysis

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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