This is an analysis of Sonnet by Frances Anne Kemble.

SUGGESTED BY SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE OBSERVING THAT WE NEVER DREAM OF OURSELVES YOUNGER THAN WE ARE.
Not in our dreams, not even in our dreams…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aBBccbbdbdXebeaa
  • Stanza lengths: 16,
  • Metre: 0101110100101110100110111 1011110011 1011110011 1101011101 1101010011 1111011101 01110011011 1111010101 11011101011 11110010100 1101011000 1101011101 11110010101 1111011110 1110110101 11001011111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

not, dreams, our, in, we

Anaphora

not

Epiphora

dreams