Analysis of The Dream
A beauty in the night,
stealthily clinging to the shadows,
forever her slave,
to such perfection none could hold a candle,
nearer the bed she edges,
the light glimpses a lock of raven hair,
delicate features too soft to touch,
how her lips shine gloriously,
drawing close,
until . . .
I wake to the empty space beside me,
The dream shatters.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJHK |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010001 110101 01001 11010111010 1001110 0110011101 100101111 10111000 101 01 1110101011 0110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 330 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 266 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
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Submitted on March 20, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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