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
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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Madison Julius Cawein

Madison Julius Cawein (March 23, 1865 – December 8, 1914) was a poet from Louisville, Kentucky. more…

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