This is an analysis of A Dream by William Blake.
Once a dream did weave a shade
O'er my angel-guarded bed,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb bbbX ddee aaXX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1010101 10110101 1110101 1111011 10100101 1010101 10100101 1111101 1110111 1111101 1110101 1011111 1001101 1110111 1011101 1010001 1110101 1010101 1010101 101001111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
they
Anaphora
now