This is an analysis of the poem Waking In March that begins with:

Last night, again, I dreamed
my children were back at home, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbccdXXefdfafggXgdhabbfbdahecahed
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111 1100111 1110011011 111010010 1000110100 111001011 10010111 0101100101 01101111 10111010 01010111 000111011 11100100011 01111011 101110101 110111 011011101 011 111110 00010011110 0100111101 011000111 011001111 10010010101 101111 11001001 01101010101 1001110 1101001011 0011100010 1110010001 01010001110 0010010000 011111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1244
  • Average number of words per stanza: 232
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; to is repeated.

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