This is an analysis of A Dream by James Whitcomb Riley.
I dreamed I was a spider;
A big, fat, hungry spider;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaabcccb ddddbbbd eeefeeef aaadbbbd XXXgeeeg eXeXeeed
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 1111010 0111010 0101010 0010101 00101110 11101010 11101010 0010011 11101010 0100010 10100010 1010101 10101010 01111010 11101010 11101001 11101010 10111110 10100010 10100101 10101110 10101010 11101010 0010111 10100010 10101010 10101010 1110011 11101010 11101010 00100010 1010101 101011100 101000100 111111100 1110101 10101010 11101110 1101010 0010101 11111010 1110111 10101110 1110101 10111010 11101010 11100010 10100111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
spider, demon, weeping, pleasure, capered, dying, '
Anaphora
a, with, and, such
Epiphora
spider, demon, weeping, pleasure, capered