This is an analysis of The First Love Dream by Henry Clay Work.

Last night, mother, he told me so,
As we walked by the pebbly stream;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcbXcDc cdedacDC XeaedcDC
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
  • Metre: 11101111 11110101 1111101101 0110101 10101010011 1011110 10111100111 11111011 11101101 1111101 11111011011 1110101 11111111101 1110101 10111100111 11111011 11100101 0011101 1010100111 1110101 10101010001 1110101 10111100111 11111011
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

so, he