This is an analysis of the poem The Dream Of Man that begins with:

To the eye and the ear of the Dreamer
This Dream out of darkness flew,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aBCB dcAcedAdfdgdaaeahiXidfjfkicikKeklgggegXgXmcmjghg andnagggdccXXglgjjhjogegpdcX agjgXgqgererdkhkksas ddddggoghbXXfjdjkgagjjajgahn agXgefqfkfefogoX aghgXckcabebXkkK eldlknhnggaggceX ejh J ejXgJ hjX J kkjkbgXX drprdjajdnXaXeXeandn ibkbqdXdhjqjgnhnaeXX a
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,48,28,20,28,16,16,16,3,1,5,3,1,8,20,20,12,16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0011010010 0110101 1011010010 11111001 0101010 011101 1010010 1100011 11010010 0100101 1010010 1001101 11011 0100101 11111110 1101101 010010010 1011110 0101010 11010010 0100110 0100111 0101110 0100101 01011100 101001 1001010 01001101 011010011 100101 11001010 0100101 101010010 11001 11010110 110111 110011010 1111011 01010010 100111 110101 0100101 1101110 101101 11001010 010101 01010100 100011 11001010 110001001 110011010 1100001 111110010 111101001 110111111 110111 0110010010 01001001 11011110 1101111 010110010 111011001 11101110 11111001 11111110 1110101 10001110 1111101 1011010010 011001 111001101 1101101 01101011 1011101 101001010 0111001 111110011 1101101 101111110 11101110 101010010 0100111 00101010 1100101 110011100 1101101 01001110 0110111 1001010 00101101 0111010 110111 110110101 0110101 11100010 11010011 110001010 1100101 1101110 1111111 01101010 0110101 0100110 10100101 110111010 01011001 1111011 011111 1011010 010111 10110100 1111101 11100011 110111 10101111 010101 101001010 1010111 010110010 101101 10010100 1100101 01001010 0100101 111011010 11001110 100010010 101001001 10101110 00100101 11101010 00100111 110011011 11111011 010011010 01111001 110111110 11011111 10010010010 1010101 111110111 101001111 11100011011 01101001 11110010 0100101 110010010 10001001 11010010 11001000 1011110 10101101 11101010 11101011 100001010 1110101 100011100 11001001 01010010 11001 11110010 010101 101110011 0010101 101010010 1011101 001010010 11101001 1100010 110001001 11011110 10100111 101010010 1010101 11010010 11110 10110010 0010111 01000010 10101 110010010 01001001 01010000 1 10101 11001010 11100101 1001010 10101 101011110 1110111 0010011010 001100001 111001101 1111111 1100100 0101100 10101011 01011011 11010010 1101101 11010110 101001001 11101010 1100111 1010110010 11101110 001011100 01010010 110010010 1001101 01010010 1001001 1001010 0010010001 11010010 1101001 1101010 1110111 101011010 1011011 0011010 1101101 1011110 1100101 0100010010 110111 101110010 0100101 110100110 110101 101001010 111101 11001010 0011111 11001100 1101110 101101010 1011011 010011010 010111 01110010 110101 1111010 1100100 1011110 011101 101101010 11111001 110011100 1100100 1011110 1111111 11101010 1010101 10111010 11101101 11011110 11011001 010110010 110100 10010010 0110101 1011010010 11111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 462
  • Average number of words per stanza: 85
  • Amount of lines: 266
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, with, to, his, my, it, but, i are repeated.

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

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

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

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

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