This is an analysis of The Mystic's Vision by Mathilde Blind.

Ah! I shall kill myself with dreams!
These dreams that softly lap me round…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXbcc dedeee aaaaaa fdfdgg hahabb dedeiiXddddaa
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,13,
  • Metre: 11111101 11110111 111100110 11110111 101111101 110011101 01000101 11011101 01011101 11011101 01010100 11111111 01010101 01100101 11100101 01011101 110011010 100101010 10110101 11000101 110101001 11111111 01011101 11010111 11000101 01011101 01010101 0101011001 11001111 01110101 11011101 11010010 11011101 11000101 11000100 11010101 11000001 11010101 11010101 11011101 11011001 11011101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 42

Repeated words/phrases

my

Anaphora

a, my

Anadiplosis

drowned