This is an analysis of the poem The Dreamer that begins with:
The lone man gazed and gazed upon his gold,
His sweat, his blood, the wage of weary days;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacacadadee effB fgfggfgfahahbibiaa efBF jkjkfjfjhdhdalalmm ffBF kkkkgfgfananff ejejB dndnfofoeeae XabaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,4,18,4,18,4,14,5,12,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111110101 0101010101 1111110101 11110001101 0101110011 0111010101 0100000111 1111110001 1101010111 1101010001 1101010101 1001111001 1101001101 0001011101 101010110111 01011001101 1001000101 0111010101 0101110101 1101010101 1011110101 1101110111 01011000101 1110011101 01111101001 11111100101 11011111110 11010111111 01010101101 1101011101 01011010101 0101010101 1111111101 1101111111 1101010101 1001110101 0101111111 0101010101 0111010101 1111010101 1001010101 01010010101 0101011111 0111110001 11011000101 1111100101 1011011101 1011011111 1111010101 1101000101 0101111101 1011111101 1101001101 01001010101 0101010101 0101110101 11111101011 1100110001 0111010101 0101010101 0111010101 1111010101 1001010111 1001011101 1011101101 0111010101 1111110101 1111010011 11001011111 11010011001 10011010001 1011110001 1111101101 1101011101 1101110101 1100011111 1001010111 1111111111 10011011111 1001010101 0111010101 0111010111 1111000101 0111011011 1011011111 1111010111 1111010101 0111010101 1101110101 1111110111 11010101011 01110101010 0101010101 0101110011 0101011011 1111110111 0111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 106
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; his, so, and, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, what, and, a are repeated.
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- summary of The Dreamer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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