Analysis of The Land of Dreams
William Blake 1757 (Soho) – 1827 (London)
Awake, awake, my little boy!
Thou wast thy mother's only joy;
Why dost thou weep in thy gentle sleep?
Awake! thy father does thee keep.
'O, what land is the Land of Dreams?
What are its mountains, and what are its streams?
O father! I saw my mother there,
Among the lilies by waters fair.
'Among the lambs, cloth?d in white,
She walk'd with her Thomas in sweet delight.
I wept for joy, like a dove I mourn;
O! when shall I again return?'
Dear child, I also by pleasant streams
Have wander'd all night in the Land of Dreams;
But tho' calm and warm the waters wide,
I could not get to the other side.
'Father, O father! what do we here
In this land of unbelief and fear?
The Land of Dreams is better far
Above the light of the morning star.'
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEXX CCFF XXGG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (60%) Etheree (25%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01011101 11110101 111101101 01110111 11110111 1111001111 110111101 010101101 0101101 1110100101 111110111 11110101 111101101 1101100111 111010101 111110101 101101111 0111101 01111101 010110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 728 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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