This is an analysis of the poem Illumined that begins with:
I WOKE in the Land of Night,
With a dream of Day at my heart;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcac daeafgdg dcdcgcac ggggbheh cccceacX eXicfc hXjgafhf kkXkikgK cljljX hglgXgfg akgkgkgK hhchalglXdaiadccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,8,8,8,8,6,8,8,6,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100101 00101111 0101110 1011101 1101010 10100111 001011111 0110101 11001010 010101 101011010 110101 10101010 1100101 111011010 1100110 11011010 1110101 11001110 111101 111110010 110101 111111010 01101001 1111110 1111101 1101010 110101 11111010 0010101 111111110 101101 10100101 1100101 111111 111101 11111110 111111 11011011 100101 1111110 110100 10101110 110101 101110101 100101 1110111 100000 11101001 1000101 10110111 110111 11110111 010101 1111111 10111011 1111001 1100111 00110101 1100101 1111101101 111101 1100101 110101 111111010 011101 1110111110 0001011 1010101 1100101 11110101 01110111 1100111 010101 11010101 10010101 0111101 0100101 0101010 110101 11011110 110101 1111100101 111101 11110101 1111111 10101011 1010101 11011010 010111 1110101101 11111 11010010 111111 1111010010 0111101 11100110 1010111 111100101 01001001
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 102
- 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 punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, i, for, it, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i are repeated.
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- summary of Illumined;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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