This is an analysis of the poem Dreamers that begins with:
Soldiers are citizens of death's gray land,
Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabcbcb dcdcdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011000111 10110101010 00110010011 10011100110 1011010111 1101011011 1011010101 11010011111 1100111111 1001010101 1001100111 1111010001 1101110111 1100010001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 313
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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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- summary of Dreamers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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