This is an analysis of Dreams by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
What dreams we have and how they fly
Like rosy clouds across the sky;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeffggdd
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,
- Metre: 11111111 11010101 01010101 01110111 11110111 01010101 01110101 11010111 11011101 11011111 11110101 01010101 10101111 11010111 11111111 01111111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
of, ah, dreams
Anaphora
of, the, o
