This is an analysis of the poem A Dream that begins with:
Was it a dream? We sail'd, I thought we sail'd,
Martin and I, down the green Alpine stream,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXefecdbXgfaehccbecigaaeXaihhXceea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 37,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001111111 1011101111 1011010101 1011001101 1011001101 1011010101 0101011101 01110110111 1011010101 1111010101 1011011111 10110010101 11010010101 0101011011 1101011101 1001010111 1001110111 1011011001 10011101001 1101010001 1011110011 11010010111 10110110011 1101110101 11111101001 1111011101 1111001111 1111111100 1111011111 1101010111 11110101001 11100101001 110011111010 1101011101 10101010111 1001011101 1001010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1769
- Average number of words per stanza: 302
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; their is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word on is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines life is repeated).
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- summary of A Dream;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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