Analysis of Dreams
John Henry Newman 1801 (London) – 1890 (Edgbaston)
OH! miserable power
To dreams allow'd, to raise the guilty past,
And back awhile the illumined spirit to cast
On its youth's twilight hour;
In mockery guiling it to act again
The revel or the scoff in Satan's frantic train!
Nay, hush thee, angry heart!
An Angel's grief ill fits a penitent;
Welcome the thorn—it is divinely sent,
And with its wholesome smart
Shall pierce thee in thy virtue's palmy home,
And warn thee what thou art, and whence thy
wealth has come.
Scheme | ABBAXX CXXCXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1100010 1101110101 010100101011 111110 0100111101 01010101101 111101 111110100 1001110101 011101 11101111 011111011 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 498 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 7 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 182 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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