Analysis of Ay, workman, make me a dream
Stephen Crane 1871 – 1900
Ay, workman, make me a dream,
A dream for my love.
Cunningly weave sunlight,
Breezes, and flowers.
Let it be of the cloth of meadows.
And -- good workman --
And let there be a man walking thereon.
| Scheme | ABCDEFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101101 01111 111 10010 11110111 0110 0111011001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 204 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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