This is an analysis of the poem Creed that begins with:
Laugh, laugh at all my dreams!
What I dream shall yet come true!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb adcd XeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111111 1111111 1110101 110101 1011101 100010101 11110101 10010111 100101101 10010100 11011101 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; laugh, at, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Creed;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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