This is an analysis of the poem A Vision Splendid that begins with:

Half waking and half dreaming,
While starry lamps hung low... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb dXec fgdg ahfh ijkj abDL aihi ichc mgXf nXcg oodo fgXg cbkl eXch pcec bnfn cidX djim mihi dhih jdmd phmh bdad mdXd fndn fqdq gjdj mcic dcmc ibmbXibDL
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101110 110111 1101010 010101 0100010 0101010 01010010 010001 0101110 110101 0101010 100101 0101010 110101 0101010 010101 1101010 10001 0101111 010101 1110010 110101 0100010 110010 1101110 0100101 0111010 111111 1101010 110101 1101010 011111 1111110 110101 1001010 010100 1101010 1101110 1101011 1100101 0111011 010101 1101110 110001 1111110 111101 1101010 111101 0101010 110101 1111010 010010 1111010 111010 1101010 011001 1101010 010101 0101010 011111 11011100 011001 1111110 110101 11011010 011111 0101010 111101 1101010 010001 0111010 010100 1101110 111101 0101110 110101 1101010 110101 1100010 1010101 1101011 010101 1101010 110101 1101010 110001 01010100 1010101 1101111 010101 0101110 111101 1101010 111101 0101110 011100 1101010 010101 1011110 110111 1011010 010111 1101110 110101 1111011 011101 1101010 110101 1111110 010101 0101110 110101 1101010 110111 1101010 110101 1101111 011111 1111010 111101 1101010 110101 0100010 110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 31
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 124
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, they are repeated.

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

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