Analysis of My Queen of Dreams

Philip Joseph Holdsworth 1851 (Sydney) – 1902



In the warm flushed heart of the rose-red west,
   When the great sun quivered and died to-day,
You pulsed, O star, by yon pine-clad crest --
   And throbbed till the bright eve ashened grey --
   Then I saw you swim
   By the shadowy rim
Where the grey gum dips to the western plain,
   And you rayed delight
   As you winged your flight
To the mystic spheres where your kinsmen reign.

O star, did you see her? My queen of dreams!
   Was it you that glimmered the night we strayed
A month ago by these scented streams?
   Half-checked by the litter the musk-buds made?
   Did you sleep or wake?
   Ah, for Love's sweet sake
(Though the world should fail and the soft stars wane!)
   I shall dream delight
   Till our souls take flight
To the mystic spheres where your kinsmen reign!


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Poetic Form Etheree  (30%)
Metre 0011110111 101110111 111111111 01101111 11111 101001 1011110101 01101 11111 101011111 1111101111 111110111 010111101 1110100111 11111 11111 1011100111 11101 110111 101011111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 791
Words 143
Sentences 9
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 10, 10
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 291
Words per stanza (avg) 70
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Philip Joseph Holdsworth

Philip Joseph Holdsworth was a poet and public servant in colonial New South Wales.  more…

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