This is an analysis of Bad Dreams: I by Robert Browning.

LAST night I saw you in my sleep:
And how your charm of face was changed!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXaX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 11111011 11110111 11111111 110111100 10110111 10111111 01011110 111111010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

you, i

Epiphora

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