Analysis of Where Dreams the Boy



Where dreams the boy in muted light
There evergreens in winter blight
Are bundled in the blackened wings
Whose anvil feathers quivering
Sift powder drifts of fallen white.

And in the dampered depth of night
The Deus-lauding Christmas rite,
A pious choir echoing
Where dreams the boy.

Their crystal carols, frail, alight
on Nyx's heft, her onyx might,
Upon the ice lake shimmering,
Within her dark eyes pondering
In silent joy, with whispers slight
Where dreams the boy.


Scheme aaxba aabC aabbaC
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 11010101 1100101 11000101 11010100 11011101 0001111 0110101 01010100 1101 11010101 1110101 01011100 01011100 01011101 1101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 471
Words 85
Sentences 3
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 4, 6
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 127
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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Written on 2023

Submitted by James_Kirkpatrick on December 13, 2023

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