This is an analysis of the poem Dreams that begins with:
Despite the geologists’ knowledge and craft,
mocking magnets, graphs, and maps—...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdX eeeeee fbX aXgbh fgeb bbXeeX cbghe beebXdXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,3,5,4,6,5,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001001011 1010111 0011001 101110110 111 11101101 0011010 0110111010 11010101 10111010 1010101110 0101010111000 11001010101 11010 011011011 011001101010 10101011101 10011110011 1101010101 11010100010 0010110101 10100101110 01010011 110110101 100101100 11100 11110011 111000011 101011001001 11010011110 01001111 0101 1100101 100111 111111010011 01001001110 01001010101 01011 01010 1111010 10110 01100110 0110010000 011000110000 111001110 111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; our, in, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words without, and, we, the, in are repeated.
The author used the same words without, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Dreams;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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