This is an analysis of the poem A Dream that begins with:
I dreamed
A dream of you,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaaabbacac dedffeefcfc bebeXeeecec fgfeeggeceX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,11,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 0101 1111 110101 11 0111010111 1111 1101 01001011101 1110011111 0111 11 1111 1011 111111 11 01010110101 0101 1111 1111010101 0101111111 1011 11 1111 1111 0101010 110 1101011101 1101 00010 0011011100 11010101110 1111 11 0111 1101 111111 01 1111010101 1100 1101 1101110101 1100111011 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; you, and are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word dream at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of A Dream;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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