Analysis of A Ghost And A Dream
Madison Julius Cawein 1865 ( Louisville, Kentucky) – 1914 ( Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky)
Rain will fall on the fading flowers,
Winds will blow through the dripping tree,
When Fall leads in her tattered Hours
With Death to keep them company.
All night long in the weeping weather,
All night long in the garden grey,
A ghost and a dream will talk together
And sad are the things they will have to say:
Old sad things of the bough that's broken;
Heartbreak things of the leaf that's dead;
Old sad things no tongue hath spoken;
Sorrowful things no man hath said.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEF |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme |
Metre | 111101010 11110101 111001010 11111100 111001010 11100101 0100111010 0110111111 111101110 1110111 11111110 10011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 466 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 371 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 87 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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