This is an analysis of the poem The Dream Of The World Without Death that begins with:

NOW, sitting by her side, worn out with weeping,
Behold, I fell to sleep, and had a vision, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aba bcd Xef gbhc ibb bhf jbb Xaa gcX dXf ahb dcb bch cXb ceg bkg cee eaf jlm nhc hce gec cne ggn aXX mhh hkc och bec ahh jae fan cXm bon Xem Xob mhl clm fhm Xck iXf mgf fnf cef pcf fma gmo apc cfm XoknnX bmb ghh hah han aab bgg X fXc chn odm boaXmhb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,4,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,6,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010111010 01110111010 01110101010 1001010101 10010101010 11001010111 11010101010 10110111011 10110011110 11010111010 1010101010 10010011010 11010011110 01110101010 11101101010 1001010101 11011101010 001000111011 1001010001 1111010111 11010111110 11010110011 11001010110 11011001010 11011001110 1101010111 11000101110 101110111110 110110101 111000110010 1100011101 01110101110 11010100110 11010101010 1101010101 11110100010 1011101110 11010101010 1010000101010 110000111110 11010101010 10011110100 01010111010 101110101110 11110101010 111001101110 11010001010 11010101010 11110100011 10110001110 11111111110 11110111011 11111101011 11111111010 1111110011 11110101011 11011111101 110100001110 11110100010 110111001010 11010101010 111011010 11101100010 11111111010 01001110110 11010111110 11111101010 11110101110 11010100010 11011111010 101110101010 101010101010 11010101010 10111101110 11111100010 11010101010 101110100011 10011100010 11001100110 01110100010 01010101010 100100110010 11010101010 11111101010 11010100010 1011101010 11000111100 11011101110 11110111010 1101011111 110000100111 110010100111 11100111110 101000101010 11001101110 101011101010 11010100111 111011111010 11111100110 101111011110 101110101011 1011101101110 101010101011 111110100111 11101111111 111110101110 1111111010110 111111100110 101010101010 11100111011 11101101010 111111101011 11011101110 101110111011 101110101110 11000111110 001011111110 101011110011 1111011101 111010111010 11110101110 1111010001 0110011101 101010111110 11110101011 01010101011 1010101001110 11010101011 0101010101 01010101110 01010101110 01000101011 11000111110 010011100011 1011101011100 1111011101 0110011101 10101011111 101011100010 01010101010 1001110001 11010101110 11010111110 111011101011 11110100010 01011111110 11011101011 101011101110 110011110110 11010111110 10010011110 11110110010 001011101010 10110101010 11110100010 111100100010 11010101011 1111000111 1101000101 110010101010 10110101010 110011111100 10011111010 11110101010 11110101010 10111100010 10111101110 11010101110 10111101111 11110101010 01100100110 11011101110 10110101010 111110101100 111010101110 111111110110 11111111010 11010101110 111110100010 111011101010 10100110101 11010111110 111101100010 11110100110 110001001010 11110111010 01011111010 11011101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 62
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 188
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, d, i, that, upon, her, green, no, with, their, my, in, of, but, for are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words and, one, i, the, there 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 him, ashes are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word envied at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase fading connects the lines.

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