This is an analysis of the poem The Dream that begins with:
In noon's heat, in a dale of Dagestan
With lead inside my breast, stirless I lay;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcdcdeaXaXeXeefXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0110010101 0101111011 01111111 11011101 1011011101 10010101 10111101 11111111 1001111101 1011010111 011101010 0101010111 100101110 10011101 10010101 0111011111 1001010111 0111010111 0101010111 1110011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 807
- Average number of words per stanza: 154
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of The Dream;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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