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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Lord Alfred Douglas

Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas, nicknamed Bosie, was a British author, poet and translator, better known as the friend and lover of the writer Oscar Wilde. Much of his early poetry was Uranian in theme, though he tended, later in life, to distance himself from both Wilde's influence and his own role as a Uranian poet. more…

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