This is an analysis of the poem Bereft, She Thinks She Dreams that begins with:
I dream that the dearest I ever knew
Has died and been entombed.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXcdcd ebebfdfd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101101 111001 11100111001 11111000 1001011110 11111 101101110 11111 01101101110 1010101 11111000010 1111001 110111010 110111 110011110 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; i, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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