Analysis of Her Dream
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
I dreamed as in my bed I lay,
All night's fathomless wisdom come,
That I had shorn my locks away
And laid them on Love's lettered tomb:
But something bore them out of sight
In a great tumult of the air,
And after nailed upon the night
Berenice's burning hair.
| Scheme | ABACDEDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101111 111101 11111101 01111101 11011111 00110101 01010101 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 260 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 202 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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