This is an analysis of A Dream Of Good by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.

To do some little good before I die;
To wake some echoes to a loftier theme;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaabab cdcdee
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 0111000111 01110001001 0111110100 1111110101 00101101101 010011111110 0100110101 110100001110 0111001101 1101010101 0110011100 1101110111 1001011101 1101100111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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