Analysis of The Dream: (For my Father)
Katharine Tynan 1861 (Ireland) – 1931
Over and over again I dream a dream,
I am coming home to you in the starlit gloam;
Long was the day from you and sweet 'twill seem
The day is over and I am coming home.
Then I shall find you as in days long past,
Sitting so quietly in the firelight glow;
'Love,' you will say to me, 'you are come at last.'
Your eyes be glad of me as long ago.
All I have won since then will slip my hold,
Dear love and children, the long years away;
I shall come home to you the girl of old,
Glad to come home to you -- oh, glad to stay!
Often and often I am dreaming yet
Of the firelit window when I've crossed the hill
And I coming home to you from night and wet:
Often and often I am dreaming still.
Over and over again I dream my dream.
Ah, why would it haunt me if it wasn't true?
I am travelling home to you by the last red gleam,
In the quiet evening I am finding you.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH AIAI |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 10010011101 111011100101 1101110111 01110011101 1111110111 1011000011 11111111111 1111111101 1111111111 1101001101 1111110111 1111111111 1001011101 1011011101 01101111101 1001011101 10010011111 11111111101 1110011110111 00101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 848 |
Words | 187 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 129 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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