Analysis of Houses of Dreams
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
You took my empty dreams
And filled them every one
With tenderness and nobleness,
April and the sun.
The old empty dreams
Where my thoughts would throng
Are far too full of happiness
To even hold a song.
Oh, the empty dreams were dim
And the empty dreams were wide,
They were sweet and shadowy houses
Where my thoughts could hide.
But you took my dreams away
And you made them all come true --
My thoughts have no place now to play,
And nothing now to do.
Scheme | ABAB ACXC XDXD EFEF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111101 0111001 110001 10001 01101 11111 11111100 110101 1010101 0010101 101010010 11111 1111101 0111111 11111111 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 456 |
Words | 90 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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