Analysis of The Dream
Lola Ridge 1873 – 1941
I have a dream
to fill the golden sheath
of a remembered day....
(Air
heavy and massed and blue
as the vapor of opium...
domes
fired in sulphurous mist...
sea
quiescent as a gray seal...
and the emerging sun
spurting up gold
over Sydney, smoke-pale, rising out of the bay....)
But the day is an up-turned cup
and its sun a junk of red iron
guttering in sluggish-green water--
where shall I pour my dream?
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLCMNOA |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101 110101 100101 1 100101 10101100 1 10011 1 0101011 000101 1011 101011101101 10111111 011011110 100010110 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 396 |
| Words | 78 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 17 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 303 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 75 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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