This is an analysis of An Imitation by Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta.
As once I dreamed, methought I strayed
Within a snow-clad mountain's shade;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabX ccdd eeff dddd ggbX hhii iiaa ffbX jjjX ddaaXddbb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11111011 01011101 01110101 111100 11011101 01100101 01011011 111111001 11111101 11110101 11011101 10110101 01110101 11010111 01010101 11010101 11110101 11010101 11010111 0111100 01100101 11111111 01011101 10010111 01100101 00110101 10110101 100010101 1111101 010100111 11110011 1110100 111101011 00110111 01111101 10111100 111101011 11010011 11010111 11010101 11011101 110011111 11010101 11011111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
it, where
Anaphora
it, and, the, whose
