This is an analysis of the poem A Dream Or No that begins with:
Why go to Saint-Juliot? What's Juliot to me?
I've been but made fancy... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cddX effe gaag ahha Xcbbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011011001 101110 111010 11011101101 11111011001 1010010 101010 111110111110 101101101101 110110 011010 11011101001 11011011101 110111 010101 11010011111 11011011011 1110101 110111 010110110001 111001111001 1010010 011110 11011001101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, me are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her, me, here are repeated).
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- summary of A Dream Or No;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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