Analysis of Dream Town

Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919



Now who is ready to go with me
Off and away to dream town?
Oh, such a journey as that will be,
All dressed in a snow white gown.
No shoe or stocking, they think it shocking
To wear such things in dream town street,
For it's paved with posies and leaves of roses,
So nothing can hurt your feet.

We leave our baggage and clothes behind
When we set out on this jaunt,
The folks who live there are very kind,
They give us whatever we want;
Sometimes a dolly we take, if she's jolly
And good all the day before.
But they've dolls without number in that land of slumber,
And of toys there's a wonderful store.

We shut up our eyes when we set out,
Though why I never have guessed,
There's some good reason I haven't a doubt,
Since every one says it is best.
I think we go faster and keep off disaster,
By folding our eyelids down;
By dropping that curtain I'm almost certain,
The sooner we get to dream town.

Just inside of the city gate,
Smiling and rosy and bright,
The boys and the girls of dream town wait
To play with us all the night.
So rocking and rocking, without shoe or stocking,
All dressed in a little white gown,
Singing and humming, we're coming, we're coming
Into the gates of dream town.


Scheme ABABCDXD EXEXAFGF HIHIGBXB JKJKCBCB
Poetic Form
Metre 111101111 1001111 110101111 1100111 1111011110 11110111 1111101110 1101111 1110100101 1111111 011111101 1111011 01010111110 0110101 1110110011110 011101001 1111011111 1111011 1111011001 110011111 111110011010 1101011 1101101110 01011111 10110101 1001001 010011111 1111101 110010011110 11001011 10010110110 0101111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,174
Words 234
Sentences 10
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8, 8
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 231
Words per stanza (avg) 58
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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