Analysis of The World of Dream
Walter de la Mare 1873 (Charlton, London) – 1956 (Twickenham)
Now, through the dusk
With muffled bell
The Dustman comes
The World to tell,
Night's elfin lanterns
Burn and gleam
in the twilight, wonderful
World of Dream.
Hollow and dim
Sleep's boat doth ride,
Heavily still
At the waterside.
Patter, patter,
The children come,
Yawning and sleepy,
Out of the gloom.
Like droning bees
in a garden green.
Over the thwarts
They clamber in.
And lovely Sleep
With long-drawn oar
Turns away
From the whispering shore.
Over the water
Like roses glide
Her hundreds of passengers
Packed inside,
To where in her garden
Tremble and gleam
The harps and lamps
Of the World of Dream.
Scheme | XAXAXBXB XCXCDXXX XXXXXEXE DCXCXBXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101 1101 0101 0111 11010 101 001100 111 1001 1111 1001 101 1010 0101 10010 1101 1101 00101 1001 1100 0101 1111 101 101001 10010 1101 0101100 101 110010 1001 0101 10111 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 613 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 121 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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