Analysis of The Dead Poet
Lord Alfred Douglas 1870 (Worcestershire) – 1945 (Lancing)
I dreamed of him last night, I saw his face
All radiant and unshadowed of distress,
And as of old, in music measureless,
I heard his golden voice and marked him trace
Under the common thing the hidden grace,
And conjure wonder out of emptiness,
Till mean things put on beauty like a dress
And all the world was an enchanted place.
And then methought outside a fast locked gate
I mourned the loss of unrecorded words,
Forgotten tales and mysteries half said,
Wonders that might have been articulate,
And voiceless thoughts like murdered singing birds.
And so I woke and knew that he was dead.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111111 110001101 01110101 1111010111 1001010101 0101011100 1111110101 0101110101 011110111 110110101 0101010011 101111010 0101110101 0111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 599 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 237 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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