This is an analysis of The Deepest Dream by Mark Van Doren.
The deepest dream is of mad governors,
Down, down we feel it, till the very crust…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba acdacd
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 0101001100 1111010101 0011111111 1001010101 1111111100 1101001101 1101111001 11010100100 1111111101 1101011111 1011010101 0111111101 1101110111 0101110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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