This is an analysis of the poem I Dreamed Of Forest Alleys Fair that begins with:
I.
I DREAMED of forest alleys fair... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcdc dece XafX X XdXd bgdg X hafa ecec fdhd caca X hihi cdcdXhhbh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,1,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11010101 1101101 11010101 110101 11010101 010101 111101001 111101 11110111 0010111 11110101 010100 1 11111101 1100101 11010101 011111 11000111 1011101 11011011 1010011 1 11110101 110101 01011101 110111 01110101 010101 11010111 010101 11111011 110101 11010101 010001 11011101 110111 11011111 111101 1 11010111 00111010 01111111 1101010 01110101 010111 011101001 111111 11110111 111011 110010111 010011
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 93
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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