This is an analysis of the poem That Has Always Been A Dream that begins with:
Why are you playing dodgeball?
In the middle of traffic on the highway? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXX XXXaXbXXXX Xa XX X ccXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,10,2,2,1,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110100 00100101011 111011 110100011 10100101100 011110010100 11011 1100011 1101001101 1111 111111101 11 110 110110 101101011 111010 01111 1110100101100 11 101101 110101001 1111100111001 11110000101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, no, and are repeated.
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- summary of That Has Always Been A Dream;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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