This is an analysis of A Dream by William Blake.

Once a dream did weave a shade
O'er my angel-guarded bed,…

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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