This is an analysis of the poem Dream-Pedlary that begins with:
IF there were dreams to sell,
What would you buy? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBabccaaaBXababccaab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101 1111 110101 1011 110111 100111 010101 101101 1010101 1111 010111 1101 1001101 1011 110111 111111 010110 011111 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 301
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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