This is an analysis of the poem The Harlequin Of Dreams that begins with:

Swift, through some trap mine eyes have never found,
Dim-panelled in the painted scene of Sleep,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacddcdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111111101 11000010101 1101000111 0111011111 11111101011 1101011101 1100011101 0101110101 1111110111 1111110101 11011111010 0111011100 0111110101 11110101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 668
  • Average number of words per stanza: 115
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; and is repeated.

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