This is an analysis of Forgiven by Helen Hunt Jackson.

I dreamed so dear a dream of you last night!
I thought you came. I was so glad, so gay,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdee
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1111010111 1111111111 1101010101 1101110101 0111110101 0111011111 1101111101 11111101101 1111101111 110101101 0111101101 11110111101 1111111110 1101011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

i, so, your

Anaphora

i, of