This is an analysis of the poem Dreams that begins with:
BORD á Plouffe, Bord á Plouffe,
W'at do I see w'en I dream of you?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXccc AbdddXe AbcXcXX AbXXeedXAbddddb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 111111101 0110100101 0111011001 111101101 10110110101 11111 1111 111111101 11011101 010011101 010110110 110011110 11111 1111 111111101 0100100101 111110111 11101101011 1011010110 11111 1111 111111101 111011111 1011111110 1011010111 111111111 11111 1111 1011110111 1110101011 11110100101 1101101110 101111011101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, de, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, de are repeated.
The author used the same word bord at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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