Analysis of Why Fades A Dream
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
WHY fades a dream?
An iridescent ray
Flecked in between the tryst
Of night and day.
Why fades a dream? —
Of consciousness the shade
Wrought out by lack of light and made
Upon life's stream.
Why fades a dream?
That thought may thrive,
So fades the fleshless dream;
Lest men should learn to trust
The things that seem.
So fades a dream,
That living thought may grow
And like a waxing star-beam glow
Upon life's stream —
So fades a dream.
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| Metre | 1101 10101 100101 1101 1101 110001 11111101 0111 1101 1111 11011 111111 0111 1101 110111 01010111 0111 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 430 |
| Words | 84 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 18 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 339 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 82 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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