This is an analysis of Recollections Of A Dreamland by James Clerk Maxwell.
Rouse ye! torpid daylight-dreamers, cast your carking cares away!
As calm air to troubled water, so my night is to your day;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabXcc ddccccbbeeffgXccee hhffiihhjjccddkkhhllddffccjjXgghh
- Stanza lengths: 6,18,33,
- Metre: 111011101110101 111010101110011 101011111010101 111101101011000 1110101110101001 101010100110101 101010101111101 001011100010111 101011101010101 101010101010101 100010101010101 101011100011111 101010101010111 111010100110101 101000100110111 1010001101110111 101010111110111 101010101100101 10010111010010101 001010101110101 1111100101010101 111110101010101 101010101010101 1010011101010011 111110101000101 111010111010101 111010101011111 101001101011111 1110101111101010 0010111110101010 111011111110001 111010101111101 111010101011101 101011101010101 101010101010101 111000111010101 111010100111101 001010101011101 1010110100101001 111111101110101 100110101111111 111111101110110 101010101010001 101011101001101 101111101111111 111111101111101 1110100101110101 101010101010001 1110110111111111 101010100110101 110111101011111 111011100010101 111111101111111 101010101010111 111111101011111 111011100011101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 56
Repeated words/phrases
your, from, i, of, and, me, for, oh, part, we, let, my
Anaphora
i, part, let
