This is an analysis of The Key Note by Ambrose Bierce.
I dreamed I was dreaming one morn as I lay
In a garden with flowers teeming.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dede dddd dfdf ghgh XXeX idid jbjb khkXXabab
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11111011111 001001010 111011001001 001111110 01001101011 0011110110 011110010001 010010010 11100111111 1011110010 1010110111 101001010 1100101101 111110010 1100110101 1010010110 10100110101 0010110010 10101101001 111010010 1101111101 0010110010 1010100101 101001110 11101001001 11011010 111001111101 1110110100 11011001101 0010010010 11101001001 0010110010 11111011001 1111110110 10100110101 011010010 01011001001 11001110 11101000101 11001000 10100110111 111111110 111111101001 110010110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
i, in, of, that
Anaphora
that, for