Analysis of A Dream Of Good
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
To do some little good before I die;
To wake some echoes to a loftier theme;
To spend my life's last store of industry
On thoughts less vain than Youth's discordant dream;
To endow the world's grief with some counter--scheme
Of logical hope which through all time should lighten
The burden of men's sorrow and redeem
Their faces' paleness from the tears that whiten;
To take my place in the world's brotherhood
As one prepared to suffer all its fate;
To do and be undone for sake of good,
And conquer rage by giving love for hate;
That were a noble dream, and so to cease,
Scorned by the proud but with the poor at peace.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010111 11110101001 1111111100 1111110101 10101111101 110011111110 0101110001 1101101110 111100110 1101110111 1101011111 0101110111 1001010111 1101110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 616 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 244 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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