Analysis of As When From Dreams Awaking
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton 1808 (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Sheridan London) – 1877 (London)
AS when from dreams awaking
The dim forms float away
Whose visioned smiles were making
Our darkness bright as day;
We vainly strive, while weeping,
From their shining spirit track,
(Where they fled while we were sleeping,)
To call those dear ones back!
Like the stars, some power divides them
From a world of want and pain;
They are there, but daylight hides them,
And we look for them in vain.
For a while we dwell with sadness,
On the beauty of that dream,
Then turn, and hail with gladness
The light of morning's beam.
So, when memory's power is wringing
Our lonely hearts to tears,
Dim forms around us bringing
That brightened former years:
Fond looks and low words spoken,
Which those dreamy days could boast,
Rise; till the spell be broken,
We forget that they are lost!
But when the hour of darkness rolls
Like heavy night away;
And peace is stealing o'er our souls,
Like the dawn of summer day:
The dim sweet forms that used to bless,
Seem stealing from us too;
We loved them-but joy's sunniness
Hath hid them from our view!
Oh could day beam eternally,
And Memory's power cease,
This world, a world of light would be,
Our hearts were worlds of peace:
But dreams of joy return with night,
And dwell upon the past-
And every grief that clouds our light,
Reminds us of the last!
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Poetic Form | Etheree (28%) |
Metre | 11111 011101 111010 1010111 1101110 1110101 11111010 111111 101110011 1011101 1111111 0111101 10111110 1010111 110111 011101 11110110 1010111 1101110 110101 1101110 1110111 1101110 1011111 110101101 110101 0111010101 1011101 01111111 110111 111111 1111101 11110100 01101 11011111 1010111 11110111 010101 0100111101 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,261 |
Words | 237 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6, 2, 8, 8, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 144 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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