This is an analysis of the poem Between Sleep And Waking that begins with:
SOFTLY in a dream I heard,
Ere the day was breaking, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBaB cdcd ecec fefe gbgb XBeB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1000111 101110 1010111 011110 10101001 111010 1011101 100110 1011111 011010 10101101 111010 1101101 101111 1010101 101011 1111111 001010 1110101 101110 1011110 101110 1011101 011110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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 author used the same word calling at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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