Analysis of Song Of A Dream
Sarojini Naidu 1879 (Hyderabad) – 1949 (Lucknow)
ONCE in the dream of a night I stood
Lone in the light of a magical wood,
Soul-deep in visions that poppy-like sprang;
And spirits of Truth were the birds that sang,
And spirits of Love were the stars that glowed,
And spirits of Peace were the streams that flowed
In that magical wood in the land of sleep.
Lone in the light of that magical grove,
I felt the stars of the spirits of Love
Gather and gleam round my delicate youth,
And I heard the song of the spirits of Truth;
To quench my longing I bent me low
By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow
In that magical wood in the land of sleep.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100110111 1001101001 1101011011 0101100111 0101100111 0101100111 01100100111 1001111001 1101101011 1001111001 01101101011 111101111 10110101111 01100100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 609 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 236 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 31, 2023
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