This is an analysis of the poem Traveling Dream that begins with:
I am packing to go to the airport
but somehow I am never packed. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabc cXde fegg ehXa heac aXbX defc eaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010011 11111101 11010011 11010 10001010 10110101 010111 110101 110101101 011111 1011101 10101111 000011 10100101 1111010 0011110 11101101 10011110 1110111 11110010 1001011 110111 100100111 110110001 11010110 110011 1110101 0101110 11101101 1011111 1111011 1011010010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word now at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Traveling Dream;
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