This is an analysis of the poem Sream Travel that begins with:
Who hath not longed, by converse fired or book,
To break him sudden from his own home-nook,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbcX bbXXddbbcceefXgg hhaaX ijjaakkkkll mmaabbiikkaannbb cciiggXgjXgghhooXooiiffjjoobb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,16,5,11,16,29,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11111101011 0111000111 1011111111 1101011101 1111110001 101010100 11111000101 1011110101 1111011101 1101000101 0101010101 01110111001 01010101010 11110101110 1101110111 0111011101 1001011001 1110110101 1011010111 0101010101 1111011101 110010101 1111011111 0101110101 11010010111 1001010101 1001001100 11010100001 01011111101 01001111101 0101010101 0101010101 111111001001 1011110101 11010101101 1001110001 1011110101 1111010101 0111010101 1101111101 1111100101 1101010111 1011010101 01011101101 1101111101 110100011001 11001010001 1101111001 100100010101 1011110100 1111111101 1101010001 1111110111 1111111111 1101110101 1101010101 10101010101 1111010101 1101111111 1100010011 1111010111 1101010101 1111010101 1011111111 1111010111 1011011110 1011011101 1101111101 1101110101 1101000101 11111100101 1101010101 10111101001 1111011001 01001111101 11010000101 11110011001 1101110101 11110101001 1111011101 11111100101 111111001 1111111111 0100111001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 536
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; or, and, his, her, of, on, hundred are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, and, on, or are repeated.
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- summary of Sream Travel;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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