This is an analysis of Only A Dream by James Whitcomb Riley.
Only a dream!
Her head is bent…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Abbccddbb Aeeffggbb Addeehhdd AaaeebbaX
- Stanza lengths: 9,9,9,9,
- Metre: 1001 0101 100100100 1010010101 001011101 1100110111 10100101 1110101101 010101101 1001 10101 101011001 111110101 00100110101 1100111101 0101101101 11010111 11011101 1001 10101 010110101 1010011111 1010100101 110100111 10010111 10110101 10100101 1001 1101 100100101 1100100101 111110101 0010110101 0010100101 1100100101 100101001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
he, she
