Analysis of A Dream
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
I dreamed
A dream of you,
Not as you seemed
When you were late unkind
And blind
To my eyes' pleading for a debt long due,
But touched and true
And all inclined
To tenderest fancies on love's inmost theme.
How sweet you were to me and ah, how kind
In that dear dream!
I felt
Your lips on mine
Mingle and melt,
And your cheek touch my cheek.
I, weak
With vain desires and askings for a sign
Of love divine,
Found my grief break,
And wept and wept in an unending stream
Of sudden joy set free, yet could not speak,
Dumb in my dream.
I knew
You loved me then,
And I knew too
The bliss of souls in Heaven
New--shriven,
Who look with pity on still sinning men,
And turn again
To be forgiven
In the dear arms of their God holding them,
And spend themselves in praise from morn till even
Nor break their dream.
I woke
In my mid bliss,
At midnight's stroke,
And knew you lost and gone.
Forlorn
I called you back to my unfinished kiss,
But only this
One word of scorn
You answered me, ``'Twas better loved to seem
Than loved to be, since all love is forsworn,
Always a dream.''
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11 0111 1111 110101 01 1111010111 1101 0101 11101111 1110110111 0111 11 1111 1001 011111 11 1101001101 1101 1111 0101010101 1101111111 1011 11 1111 0111 0111010 11 1111011101 0101 11010 0011111101 01010111110 1111 11 0111 111 011101 01 1111110101 1101 1111 1101110111 111111111 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,032 |
Words | 214 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 11, 11, 11 |
Lines Amount | 44 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 206 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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