This is an analysis of the poem Apology For Bad Dreams that begins with:
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In the purple light, heavy with redwood, the slopes drop seaward,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcddefeeegcahaiXajXbjhejeikffbX XjdefjgebkgfjlbXmjahbninjXffeh XgobnhXifmikjeiXfXXgjgjgi XihbXnbfoflaaXhXeXeXlklgXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,30,25,26,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 001011001101110 11100001010010001 01011011 01010010101101001 10111010 101111110011110 010010010 1100010011010011 001010010 010001111010001010 100111011 1001010111111 1101011001 011011101111 10010 100110110101 11110101001 10011110111 10110010110010 01100101010 011001011101 101111011101 0100011101010010 0010111100101011 0011010 10011100110010 01011010010 10010111010101 001101111 00111101010101 101101101 1 0110111001110010 010111100100110101 011001 01110010110111 10011101 011000010010011100 111010 01101110011100101 101001000100 11011101001010 1001000011011 100111001010 1111010010011 1011000100010111 11010101010 100100101011 111100100111 01010101111 0111010101 110101111101 100111011101100 10101001110010000010 11001010 111001010101011 111010010 11100101101001 00011011010 001000100010001101 101011100100 1 1010111111100 10010 10101010111001 10 10101110101001 001 100101010010110010 011 1111011111101 010 1001011101110100 11 1001010100100011011 10010001010101 100 01010101011011111 111001110111010 111100 10100101111110 10110 10010101110100 110 110101010111010 0110 1 110100001001010 0011011011101 1001001011 11001011101010000 10001100 10010100001010111 11011010 110001010001001010 010010110 10010110111110 11011 111100110111 001111011111 110011111010 11111001111 1111101110110 11011110101100 11001010111101110 1101011 10001001001001011 10101110 1000110010111 1110101000100 0100010101010100 0100101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1310
- Average number of words per stanza: 239
- Amount of lines: 113
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; what, and, of, it, in, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines out, me are repeated).
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