Analysis of No Longer She Dreams



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
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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