Analysis of No Longer She Dreams
Joy Rinsema 2003 (Illinois)
Lonely and still, the streets are dead and drawn
on winter’s edge, she waits in silent dread;
soft, her voice yet pierc’d the blue, star swirl’d dawn.
A dream, now bare -- a road that once had led
near summer shores and green, white speckled hills,
giving way to crisp, white, and deep blue waves;
ebbing and flowing with mobile thrills,
lest we may be sent to our early graves.
each gust brings new chills, heart breaking apart;
she screams in silence, they’ve broken their vow,
cruel Aphrodite lays claim to her heart;
oh, Sound of Silence, she’s forever now
lost, a flask lies hollow, no more she beams,
deaf to the world, and no longer she dreams.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGG |
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Poetic Form | Shakespearean sonnet |
Metre | 1001011101 1101110101 1011101111 0111011111 1101011101 1011110111 100101101 11111110101 1111111001 1101011011 1001011101 1111010101 1011101111 1101011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 661 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 501 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 118 |
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Submitted on January 22, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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