Analysis of I Dreamt I Caught A Little Owl
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
‘I dreamt I caught a little owl
And the bird was blue -’
‘But you may hunt for ever
And not find such a one.’
‘I dreamt I set a sunflower,
And red as blood it grew -’
‘But such a sunflower never
Bloomed beneath the sun.’
| Scheme | ABCDCBCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110101 00111 1111110 011101 1111010 011111 1101010 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 244 |
| Words | 51 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 161 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 08, 2023
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