This is an analysis of the poem The Opal Dream Cave that begins with:
In an opal dream cave I found a fairy:
Her wings were frailer than flower petals,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbXbbcaXXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101111010 0101011010 101111 11110111110 1100010011 11011011010 110100 1100100101 11011 1101100 1010011 11011 101011011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 430
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; then is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word then is repeated.
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