This is an analysis of A Dream by William Allingham.
I heard the dogs howl in the moonlight night;
I went to the window to see the sight;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb aacc ddee bbdd ffee ggaa ddcc hheee
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Metre: 1101100111 1100100101 10111011 101111111 1111111 10010101 10011001 1000101101 11101111 11011111 10010101 1011100101 111011111 111111010 110101111 11111101 011111110 1001111110 1011111 1100101111 111111111 110111101 1111101001 1111110101 11010111 010110101 1111011 1010110101 111101010 010101010 1101011011 1110111 110010011
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 33
Repeated words/phrases
i, some, and
Anaphora
i, some