Analysis of Mirage
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
The hope I dreamed of was a dream,
Was but a dream; and now I wake,
Exceeding comfortless, and worn, and old,
For a dream's sake.
I hang my harp upon a tree,
A weeping willow in a lake;
I hang my silent harp there, wrung and snapped
For a dream's sake.
Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart;
My silent heart, lie still and break:
Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed
For a dream's sake.
Scheme | xaxA xaxA xaxA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 01111101 11010111 01010101 1011 11110101 0101001 1111011101 1011 11111101 11011101 1001011111 1011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 400 |
Words | 82 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 15, 2023
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