Analysis of Golden Dream
Robert Fuller Murray 1863 – 1894
Golden dream of summer morn,
By a well-remembered stream
In the land where I was born,
Golden dream!
Ripples, by the glancing beam
Lightly kissed in playful scorn,
Meadows moist with sunlit steam.
When I lift my eyelids worn
Like a fair mirage you seem,
In the winter dawn forlorn,
Golden dream!
| Scheme | abaB bab abaB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Roundel (64%) |
| Metre | 1011101 1010101 0011111 101 1010101 1010101 11111 111111 1010111 0010101 101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 293 |
| Words | 54 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 78 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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