Analysis of Dreams
Victor James Daley 1858 – 1905
I HAVE been dreaming all a summer day
Of rare and dainty poems I would write;
Love-lyrics delicate as lilac-scent,
Soft idylls woven of wind, and flower, and stream,
And songs and sonnets carven in fine gold.
The day is fading and the dusk is cold;
Out of the skies has gone the opal gleam,
Out of my heart has passed the high intent
Into the shadow of the falling night—
Must all my dreams in darkness pass away?
I have been dreaming all a summer day:
Shall I go dreaming so until Life’s light
Fades in Death’s dusk, and all my days are spent?
Ah, what am I the dreamer but a dream!
The day is fading and the dusk is cold.
My songs and sonnets carven in fine gold
Have faded from me with the last day -beam
That purple lustre to the sea-line lent,
And flushed the clouds with rose and chrysolite;
So days and dreams in darkness pass away.
I have been dreaming all a summer day
Of songs and sonnets carven in fine gold;
But all my dreams in darkness pass away;
The day is fading, and the dusk is cold.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010101 1101010111 110100111 11101101001 010101011 0111000111 1101110101 1111110101 010110101 1111010101 1111010101 1111010111 1011011111 1111010101 0111000111 110101011 1101110111 1101010111 01011101 1101010101 1111010101 110101011 1111010101 0111000111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 996 |
Words | 198 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 5, 5, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 194 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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