This is an analysis of Queen Oriana's Dream by Charles Lamb.

On a bank with roses shaded,
Whose sweet scent the violets aided,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbbaaccbXaXaa bbdXddbbXXeebbffaaee
  • Stanza lengths: 16,20,
  • Metre: 10101010 111010010 1001101 1110111 101111001 10101011 11011101 1000111 1110101 1110101 0010111 0010100 1110101 0111100 1011101 1010111 1101001 0110101 11111110 00101010 10101110 11101010 11111001 0111101 10101010 00101010 11101010 11111010 10101010 11101010 1010111 1111101 1010001 1010101 101010010 00110110
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 37

Epiphora

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