This is an analysis of the poem I Dreamt Last Night Of Happy Home-Comings that begins with:
I dreamt last night of happy home-comings.
Friends I had loved and had believed were dead ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabXccb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111010110 1111110101 1100010111 1101011110 0111110100 1101011111 0101101101 1101111100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 336
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i is repeated.
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