This is an analysis of When My Dreams Come True by James Whitcomb Riley.
I.
When my dreams come true--when my dreams come true--…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bbccbb ddeebb X ccffbbXbbaabb
- Stanza lengths: 1,6,6,1,13,
- Metre: 1 1111111111 1110111000011101 01011100010001 001011101010111 11011101010001 1110001011111 111111010111 01010101110101 01000101010101 001000101110111 111001101110100 110001011111 1 111111110101 01010111010101 11110111010001 101100111010101 111111111010101 010101011111 1111111111 11010100011111 01000101010001 11010101110101 11001111010101 11001011111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 26
Repeated words/phrases
my, be, to, and, true
Anaphora
be
Epiphora
true
Anadiplosis
true
