This is an analysis of the poem A Dream Of Being that begins with:
I walked in dream within a convent close,
And met there lonely a familiar nun;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXbXcXccccca defffffXf ghghXX iiibbcjjccjhjhhXffkkdadadhhddiXiaaaajjbblldXgdgbmmbbjbjbdeccbXlddjjjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,9,6,69,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010101 1111000101 101101 00101001 0101001111111 100111100110 1101111111 1011010011 1101010101 1111010011 1001001101 10001010111 0101110011 1101110011 0011111010 0111110100 0111001 1111010111 1011110111 1001 11110110110 11010101000 01000101110 10011101 10001 11011001 1001110101 1100101101 1100101101 1101111101 0101001110101 1101010111 01110100101 0111110111 10110100101 110101 11110111001 1111011111 0111110101 100111 110101 1111 11110101 10111101001 110110 1101 11111011 1001011111 011110 111101 0111010111 111100 110111 1001010001 110011101111 010101 1100101100 011101 1101110101 01011101100 1110010111 010111001 1111 010101 11001011011 110111011 1111001 1111110101 0101111101 11111111 1111111101 111111101011 10010110101 010101 0101010101 111111110111 1101111101 1101110 110111110 1111011011 01011101001 11110101 1101 1001011001 1111011 1001010001 1111100100 1101010111 1111010011 1101111111 1101100101110 1011001101 111111 100101 10010110111 11110010101 11010011111 11110100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 927
- Average number of words per stanza: 182
- Amount of lines: 98
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; my, and, of, i, one, or, no, to, thee, dream are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ', go are repeated).
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