Analysis of Ode
Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy 1844 (London) – 1881 (London)
We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world's great cities,
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire's glory:
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song's measure
Can trample an empire down.
We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth;
And o'erthrew them with prophesying
To the old of the new world's worth;
For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.
Scheme | ABABABAB CCDDEFEF GHGHGHGH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010 01101011 10011110 01011001 110011 110111 111010010 10111011 1100110 11101110 011010010 110110010 11101110 11101001 01101110 11011001 1001010 00101101 110011010 010011101 01111 10110111 1111011110 11111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 768 |
Words | 145 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 204 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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