This is an analysis of A Dream Of Age by Thomas MacDonagh.
I dreamt last night that I was very old,
And very lonesome, very sad of heart;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaacca dedeff
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 1111111101 1101010101 1101100101 1111010101 1101011111 1101110101 0101001111 0101110101 1101011111 1110111111 0101010001 0101110011 0111110111 1111110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
very, of, o
Anaphora
and, o
Anadiplosis
cold
