Analysis of Bereft, She Thinks She Dreams
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
I dream that the dearest I ever knew
Has died and been entombed.
I am sure it's a dream that cannot be true,
But I am so overgloomed
By its persistence, that I would gladly
Have quick death take me,
Rather than longer think thus sadly;
So wake me, wake me!
It has lasted days, but minute and hour
I expect to get aroused
And find him as usual in the bower
Where we so happily housed.
Yet stays this nightmare too appalling,
And like a web shakes me,
And piteously I keep on calling,
And no one wakes me!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110101101 110101 11110111011 11111 1101011110 11111 101101110 11111 11101110010 1011101 01111000010 1111001 11111010 010111 0111110 01111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 496 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 195 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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