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!…
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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