Analysis of A Dream Within A Dream
Edgar Allan Poe 1809 (Boston) – 1849 (Baltimore)
Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 865 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 13 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 243 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 71 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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