Analysis of Fancies Are But Streams
Thomas Dekker 1572 – 1632
Fancies are but streams
Of vain pleasure:
They who by their dreams
True joys measure
Feasting, starve; laughing, weep;
Playing, smart. Whilst in sleep
Fools with shadows smiling,
Wake and find
Hopes like wind,
Idle hopes beguiling.
Thoughts fly away, Time hath past 'em;
Wake now, awake, see and taste 'em.
| Scheme | ABABCCDEEDFF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10111 1110 11111 1110 101101 101101 11110 101 111 101010 11011111 11011011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 305 |
| Words | 53 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 239 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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