This is an analysis of Love, Dreaming Of Death by Charles Harpur.
I dreamt my little boys were dead
And I was sitting wild and lone;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdXd cbcb cece fgfg acac dbdb gbgb hihi cbcb ejej bdbd hihiXibib
- Stanza lengths: 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11110101 11110111 11100111 110101 11110101 11111101 11011111 110011 11011101 11110101 01010001 010101 11110101 10011101 01000101 111101 11010111 11110111 1101101001 110011 01100101 11110101 11110101 110101 11000101 11010111 01111101 100001 11010101 01100100 11110101 010001 11110101 01110101 100101001 000101 11010011 11110101 111000101 010111 10101101 11110011 11010101 110001 11010101 01011101 111110001 110101 01111111 01111111 11111101 110101 11111101 01110101 110010101 010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 56
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
and, without, made
