This is an analysis of I Dream'D I Lay by Robert Burns.

I dream'd I lay where flowers were springing
Gaily in the sunny beam;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababacac adadefef
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,
  • Metre: 1111110010 1000101 10001110 1010101 10111110 1010101 1011010 1001011 111101010 1010101 111111010 11100101 110101011 110110111 0100111011 110110111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

me

Anaphora

such