A Dream Of Good by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem A Dream Of Good that begins with:

To do some little good before I die;
To wake some echoes to a loftier theme;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaabab cdcdee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 0111000111 01110001001 0111110100 1111110101 00101101101 010011111110 0100110101 110100001110 0111001101 1101010101 0110011100 1101110111 1001011101 1101100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 310
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of A Dream Of Good;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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