Analysis of A Dream In Early Spring
Fredegond Shove 1889 – 1949
Now when I sleep the thrush breaks through my dreams
With sharp reminders of the coming day:
After his call, one minute I remain
Unwaked, and on the darkness which is Me
There springs the image of a daffodil,
Growing upon a grassy bank alone,
And seeming with great joy his bell to fill
With drops of golden dew, which on the lawn
He shakes again, where they lie bright and chill.
His head is drooped; the shrouded winds that sing
Bend him which way they will: never on earth
Was there before so beautiful a ghost.
Alas! he had a less than flower-birth,
And like a ghost indeed must shortly glide
From all but the sad cells of memory,
Where he will linger, an imprisoned beam,
Or fallen shadow of the golden world,
Long after this and many another dream.
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Metre | 1111011111 1101010101 1011110101 101010111 110101010 1001010101 0101111111 1111011101 1101111101 1111010111 1111111011 1101110001 0111011101 0101011101 1110111100 1111010101 110110101 11010100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 742 |
Words | 142 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 298 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 71 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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