This is an analysis of Dream Song I by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Long years ago, within a distant clime,
Ere Love had touched me with his wand sublime,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbcc aaddeecc
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,
- Metre: 1001010101 1111100101 1101011111 0101000101 1101011101 1101000101 0111101101 0011010011 1111111101 0111110111 1101110101 011110111 0111001001 0011110111 1111001111 1110010011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
from
