This is an analysis of The Dead Poet by Lord Alfred Douglas.

I dreamed of him last night, I saw his face
All radiant and unshadowed of distress,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXaaaaa bcdbcd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 1101111101 110011000001 11010101000 1101011111 1001010101 1101010100 1111110101 1101110101 1110110111 1101010101 0101110011 1011100100 1101110101 1111111111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

i, of, and

Anaphora

and