This is an analysis of the poem A Day Dream that begins with:
METHINKS that I can hear them churning
Outside the kitchen cellar way ; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab ab ac ac ad ad eX eX Xf Xf dbXdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111010 11010101 101101110 00110101 101101110 01011111 101111010 11010101 101101110 01010001 101101010 1010111 101101010 01110111 11010111110 11010101 011101111 11011101 110101011 11011101 01111111 01110101 00110101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 72
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same words methinks, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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