This is an analysis of the poem My Happiest Dream that begins with:
I love to look, as evening fails,
On vestals streaming in their veils,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabcccb bbbXcccX dddbbbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 11010011 01011101 1101 11010111 11110101 01010101 1101 01010101 100111001 11111001 1101 01010101 01010101 01011101 0101 111010111 11010101 01010101 1101 11110001 1110001 10111101 11010001 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
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- summary of My Happiest Dream;
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