This is an analysis of the poem The Damozel Of Doom that begins with:

THAT dream came not again to me,
Nor any dream at all;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbXb adddcd ebabdb afafgf hicafa djgj kj kcacac afifXf hdkdcX Xhahah XedX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,4,2,6,6,6,6,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 110111 111110111 111101 01001101 111101 11011101 0110101 11110111 110111 11101101 110101 11110101 10110101 011110101 1100111 01110111 111101 01011111 110111 11111101 111111 11111111 111111 11011101 00100100 10110011 100101 0101110111 1110111 110110101 111101 1100110001 010101 010111101 1101101 11001101 111011 10010101 010111 10011101 101111 11110101 1010101 1111100 010101 11011100 011001 110010111 010111 11011111 100101 1010111001 10101100 11011111 10110101 1101100101 00101111 011100101 10111 10 1100101 11101101 00101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 65
  • 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; that, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines slow is repeated).

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  • summary of The Damozel Of Doom;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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