This is an analysis of the poem Dreams Are Best that begins with:
I just think that dreams are best,
Just to sit and fancy things; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ececfgfg fhfheieb bibiXadaXababcaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 1011101 1111101 1111101 1010110 1010111 10001101 1100101 1111101 1010001 101111 1111111 1111111 1110111 1010101 1010101 1110111 1110101 1011101 1011111 1110001 1001101 1010001 1011101 1110011 1011101 1111101 1110101 101011 0010101 1011101 1010101 1111101 10001101 1111101 1011101 1111101 0011101 1110110 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word fancy is repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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