Analysis of A DREAM
I often have this strange and poignant dream
Of a lady fair who is sweet and dear;
A beautiful maiden of yesteryear,
She kneels with reverence beside a stream.
And then in the night she comes to me,
In the moonlit mountains, tender, of the spring,
Which inspire songbirds in the trees to sing,
In a minor tone, near the fountains by the sea.
John Lars Zwerenz
Scheme | ABBA CDDC X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110101 1010111101 010010110 1111000101 010011111 0011010101 101100111 001011010101 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 358 |
Words | 69 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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