This is an analysis of the poem Dreamland that begins with:
When midnight mists are creeping,
And all the land is sleeping,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaBCddXcXecceeXcaaBC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110 1101010 01110101 110101 11001110 0101010 010111001 011101 0101010 0111110 11011111 111101 1101010 1101110 110101001 110101 1101110 0101010 01110101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 597
- Average number of words per stanza: 104
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of Dreamland;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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