This is an analysis of the poem A Cynic's Day-Dream that begins with:
SOME men there be who can descry
No charm in earth or sea or sky,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbcdXeffgg aahhffggeeggiibbffjjffakffffbb eellffeemmddcc nnllnnggffooffjjffaagghh ggaajjddffjjbbbXffjjeebbpXjj bbppjjaallnniiggjjakeebbhhaaggee qqbbggjjaaeegglljjeeffccdd dcffjjqqffbbggeejjggffbbffqqffqqffggeeddddXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,30,14,24,28,32,26,44,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101110 11011111 11010101 11110101 11111101 11110111 11010010 10111101 11001101 11010001 11000101 10001101 10110111 11011111 10110101 11010101 01011101 10010101 01011101 111001111 01010011 11010110 110011101 111101111 11010101 11011101 11111111 10110111 11011101 11110101 11011101 11010101 11001011 11110101 11011101 11010100 11010101 11010101 11111111 01010101 11010101 01010011 11011101 01011101 011000101 01111101 01010101 00011101 01010101 10011101 01010101 01010101 01011101 01011101 11010111 01110100 10111111 11111111 01110111 01010001 11110101 11010101 11000101 10111101 011100101 11010101 11011101 11111101 10110101 11010101 11010101 010010111 01010101 11110111 10111101 010010111 11111101 11010101 11000101 11100101 11011101 01010111 10111111 01011101 11110101 11110101 010010111 01000101 10111101 01011101 111101001 10011101 110101001 01111111 10111111 11110000 01110101 01010111 11011101 01011111 11011101 01011111 01011111 10110101 11001101 10010010 11011101 11010101 01111101 11010111 11111101 11000111 11011101 01010111 11010101 01010001 11110101 01010101 01110101 01011111 01011101 11010101 01010101 01010111 11010101 01010101 10011101 01110100 01011111 01110101 11100111 01010101 01011111 11111111 100011101 10110011 11111001 11010101 11111101 11110001 11110101 11110101 01010101 01001101 01010001 01010101 101111001 01000101 11010101 11110101 11110101 10010101 01010111 11010111 11010111 11011101 11010101 01110101 01010101 01110001 11010111 01010101 01010101 01110001 01010111 11010101 110110100 11010000 01010101 11111101 0011001001 011010101 10110101 11111111 11010101 01010001 11011101 01110101 11110101 01010100 10111101 11010101 111110011 11010101 001110111 010010001 11010011 11111101 11011111 11010101 110100101 01111001 11010101 01000101 11010101 11110101 11011101 11011011 11110101 10010011 11010111 01111111 11110101 11011101 11110111 11000101 10110101 11010101 10010110 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 941
- Average number of words per stanza: 172
- Amount of lines: 210
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, to, and, of, or, in, that, too are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, with, of, too, tho' are repeated.
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