Analysis of I Dream'd In A Dream

Walt Whitman 1819 (West Hills) – 1892 (Camden)




   I DREAM'D in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the
         whole of the rest of the earth;
   I dream'd that was the new City of Friends;
   Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love--it led the
         rest;
   It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city,
   And in all their looks and words.


Scheme ABCADEF
Poetic Form
Metre 11001110100100100110 1101101 1111011011 101101101001011110 1 1111001000101011110 0011101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 351
Words 67
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 242
Words per stanza (avg) 65
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 01, 2023

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Walt Whitman

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