This is an analysis of the poem The Dreamers that begins with:
THEY lingered on the middle heights
Betwixt the brown earth and the heaven;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBaX cdcX bcbc ecec fcXc fgfg bcbX cdcd fXfX bbbX hdhX abab fbfX ieie jdjd kBkbXkckc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 010111010 11011101 110100010 11011101 101101010 0101101 111101110 11010101 011101010 11010111 110101010 11110101 01110010010 11100111 011101010 11010101 110111010 11010100 010111010 11110111 010101010 11010011 010101010 11010111 010111011 11010111 010111010 11010111 111111110 11111101 01011011010 11110101 110111010 01010101 010100010 11100101 110101110 11110111 011001100 10111011 110101110 01011101 110101110 11110101 110111110 01011111 110001110 11011101 110101010 11010101 011111100 11110101 011101110 11011101 110101010 11111101 0111010010 11010111 111111110 01110111 010111010 11011111 110101110 11110101 110111010 11010101 110111010
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; and is repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Dreamers;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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