This is an analysis of Last Night, In A Dream by Lesbia Harford.

Last night, in a dream, I felt the peculiar anguish
Known to me of old;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XabaXcbc
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 1100111001010 10101 1111111110010 101001 0101101110010 10101 0101101010110 11001
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8

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