This is an analysis of I Dreamt Last Night Of Happy Home-Comings by Lesbia Harford.

I dreamt last night of happy home-comings.
Friends I had loved and had believed were dead…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaabXccb
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 1111010110 1111110101 1100010111 1101011110 0111110100 1101011111 0101101101 1101111100
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8

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