Analysis of Was it the sun that broke my dream
Christopher John Brennan 1870 (Haymarket, New South Wales) – 1932 (Lewisham, New South Wales)
Was it the sun that broke my dream
or was't the dazzle of thy hair
caught where our olden meadows seem
themselves again and yet more fair?
Ah, sun that woke me, limpid stream,
then in spring-mornings' rapture of air!
Was it the sun that broke my dream
or was 't the dazzle of thy hair?
And didst not thou beside me gleam,
brought hither by a tender care
at least my slumbering grief to share?
Are only the cold seas supreme?
Was it the sun that broke my dream?
| Scheme | AbababAbabbaA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011111 111010111 11101011 01010111 1111111 101101011 11011111 111010111 01110111 11010101 111100111 11001101 11011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 467 |
| Words | 92 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 13 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 357 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 90 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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