Analysis of Loving is Dreaming
John Boyle O'Reilly 1844 (Dowth) – 1890 (Boston)
Life is a certainty,
Death is a doubt;
Men may be dead
While they’re walking about.
Love is as needful
To being as breath;
Loving is dreaming,
And waking is death.
| Scheme | ABCBDEFE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110100 1101 1111 111001 11110 11011 10110 01011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 166 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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