Analysis of A Dream
Edgar Allan Poe 1809 (Boston) – 1849 (Baltimore)
In visions of the dark night
I have dreamed of joy departed-
But a waking dream of life and light
Hath left me broken-hearted.
Ah! what is not a dream by day
To him whose eyes are cast
On things around him with a ray
Turned back upon the past?
That holy dream- that holy dream,
While all the world were chiding,
Hath cheered me as a lovely beam
A lonely spirit guiding.
What though that light, thro' storm and night,
So trembled from afar-
What could there be more purely bright
In Truth's day-star?
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF AGAG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 0101011 11111010 101011101 1111010 11110111 111111 11011101 110101 11011101 1101010 11110101 0101010 11111101 110101 11111101 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 598 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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