Analysis of Dreams
Lola Ridge 1873 – 1941
Men die…
Dreams only change their houses.
They cannot be lined up against a wall
And quietly buried under ground,
And no more heard of…
However deep the pit and heaped the clay -
Like seedlings of old time
Hooding a sacred rose under the ice cap of the world -
Dreams will to light.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (22%) |
| Metre | 11 1101110 1101110101 010010101 01111 101010101 110111 1010110011101 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 288 |
| Words | 57 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 221 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 09, 2023
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