This is an analysis of A Dream-Song by George MacDonald.

The stars are spinning their threads,
And the clouds are the dust that flies,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXA aaaA babA caca
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 0111011 10110111 10111001 101101001 0100101 0111001 10111001 101101001 01011001 1100101 110101111 101101001 10110110101 01101011 0101101101 101011111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

to, and

Anaphora

and, the