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;…
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
