Analysis of Bereft, She Thinks She Dreams

Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)



I dream that the dearest I ever knew
Has died and been entombed.
I am sure it's a dream that cannot be true,
But I am so overgloomed
By its persistence, that I would gladly
Have quick death take me,
Rather than longer think thus sadly;
So wake me, wake me!

It has lasted days, but minute and hour
I expect to get aroused
And find him as usual in the bower
Where we so happily housed.
Yet stays this nightmare too appalling,
And like a web shakes me,
And piteously I keep on calling,
And no one wakes me!


Scheme ABABCCCC DEDEFCFC
Poetic Form
Metre 1110101101 110101 11110111011 11111 1101011110 11111 101101110 11111 11101110010 1011101 01111000010 1111001 11111010 010111 0111110 01111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 496
Words 102
Sentences 5
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 8
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 195
Words per stanza (avg) 50
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy, was not a Scottish Minister, not a Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland nor a Professor of Eccesiastical History at Edinburgh University. more…

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