Analysis of Bottom's Dream.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
Bottom's dream had no bottom; ours may, too,
Have no foundation. We may wake, indeed;
But all seems such a vision, none can say
(If aught's real) where reality begins.
What if we were dead now — if this were death,
And we had been alive long, long ago,
And here and now were in an after-life!
Thought sets us to a tune that we can sing;
But, like the rustic waked in fairyland,
It's all too hard for us to understand.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHII |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 10111101011 1101011101 1111010111 11111001 1110111101 0111011101 0101001101 1111011111 110101010 111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 418 |
Words | 84 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 313 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 82 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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