Analysis of GREATNESS WAS ONCE A DREAM
Greatness Was Once A Dream
He stood there by the shore,
Lamenting the days when idleness was his whore.
He dined and wined in folly:
With nothing but inherited wealth he made jolly.
In wine he retched rueful words
And lost his seat among great lords.
Lavishousness was his guide.
In material gains he took pride.
At seventy with no children and wife,
He wondered the meaning to his life.
The future was supposed to be bright
But laxity turned it his plight.
He tried to sought for gold mines
But nature spat on him grey hair and wrinkle lines.
To rest in his grave,
He did long and crave.
In him, the reality of being a failure,runs like a cold stream.
For greatness was once a dream.
Scheme | A BBCC XXDD EEFF GGHH AA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101101 111101 010011100111 1101010 1101010011110 0111101 01110111 1111 001001111 1100111001 110010111 010101111 11001111 1111111 110111110101 11011 11101 01010110011011 1101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 703 |
Words | 152 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
About this poem
This is a narrative poem of 19 lines dictating the life of a man who expected the future to work it's way like on a platter of gold. He saw no need work hard and improve himself. He was a lazy jolly fellow, a lavishous and party freak. When his harvest was due he lamented in regret.
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