Analysis of About My Dreams
Hilda Conkling 1910 – 1986
Now the flowers are all folded
And the dark is going by.
The evening is arising…
It is time to rest.
When I am sleeping
I find my pillow full of dreams.
They are all new dreams:
No one told them to me
Before I came through the cloud.
They remember the sky, my little dreams,
They have wings, they are quick, they are sweet.
Help me tell my dreams
To the other children,
So that their bread may taste whiter,
So that the milk they drink
May make them think of meadows
In the sky of stars.
Help me give bread to the other children
So that their dreams may come back:
So they will remember what they knew
Before they came through the cloud.
Let me hold their little hands in the dark,
The lonely children,
The babies that have no mothers any more.
Dear God, let me hold up my silver cup
For them to drink,
And tell them the sweetness
Of my dreams.
Scheme | ABCDCEEFGEHEIJKLMINOGPIQRKSE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101110 0011101 0101010 11111 11110 11110111 11111 111111 0111101 1010011101 111111111 11111 101010 11111110 110111 111111 00111 1111101010 1111111 111010111 0111101 1111101001 01010 01011110101 1111111101 1111 011010 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 834 |
Words | 167 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 28 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 656 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 167 |
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