This is an analysis of the poem As Their Visions Fade that begins with:

Kept too afraid to wake up.
With a clarity to embrace......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABC XDeXX XdX adXcf ABC edcdfCdbf gDgXgbgeCfbc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,3,5,3,9,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1101011 00100001 0101010 0111 00101001100 1001011101 10010011001 1010010 010100101111101 1101110101010 101001011001 01011 10101 01001011101 001011101 001010111101 1101011 00100001 0101010 1 110111001101 011110010 010000100101 0111111101 1111010101 0001001010 010001 111011 10 00101001100 10 1001011111 10 01001110101 10 101111001 1111010101 10111 1011100100 0101101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, that, truth are repeated.

    The author used the same word afraid at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase fantasies connects the lines.

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  • summary of As Their Visions Fade;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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