This is an analysis of Mussulman's Dream by Anne Kingsmill Finch.

Where is that World, to which the Fancy flies,
When Sleep excludes the Present from our Eyes;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccaadd bbeeccfffXgXffggXXaggffXfXggg
  • Stanza lengths: 10,29,
  • Metre: 1011010101 1101001011 11110011001 1001001101 1101011101 1101011111 0101011001 1101110101 1101000101 111101110101 1001010011 0101110011 1101111001 1101000101 1101110101 1101000101 0100110101 0101110101 10010100101 10011101110 1101110101 1101010110 0111010101 1101101101 11001010101 1101100101 01100101100 11110101100 11011101010 1101000101 111010100001 11010110001 0101010101 1101011110 0101010101 1001110010 1111110101 0100010101 10101011001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 40

Repeated words/phrases

we, his, in