Analysis of My Dead Dream
Sarojini Naidu 1879 (Hyderabad) – 1949 (Lucknow)
HAVE YOU found me, at last, O my Dream? Seven eons ago
You died and I buried you deep under forests of snow.
Why have you come hither? Who bade you awake from your sleep
And track me beyond the cerulean foam of the deep?
Would you tear from my lintels these sacred green garlands of leaves?
Would you scare the white, nested, wild pigeons of joy from my eaves?
Would you touch and defile with dead fingers the robes of my priest?
Would you weave your dim moan with the chantings of love at my feast?
Go back to your grave, O my Dream, under forests of snow,
Where a heart-riven child hid you once, seven eons ago.
Who bade you arise from your darkness? I bid you depart!
Profane not the shrines I have raised in the clefts of my heart.
Scheme | AABB CCDD AAEE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111111111101001 11011011101011 11111011101111 01101011101 1111111101111 111011011011111 11101111001111 11111110111111 11111111101011 101101111101001 11101111011101 01101111001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 743 |
Words | 145 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 48 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 191 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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