This is an analysis of the poem The Lost Dream that begins with:
THE black night showed its hungry teeth,
And gnawed with sleet at roof and pane;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaababccccdedebfbXfffffcfc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101 11011111 01011101 011101 01011111 11011111 01010101 110111 11011011 01101111 011101111 110111 11011111 11010111 00111101 110101 11111101 11010101 11010101 1111100 01111101 11010101 10010101 1110001 11110111 01111101 11010111 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 971
- Average number of words per stanza: 182
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, my, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Lost Dream;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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