Analysis of A Dream
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
I was wand'ring in my sleep—
O what treasures thou dost keep
In thy wild imaginings,
Spirit of the folded wings!—
Methought I was in a grove
Sacred to and home of Love;
In it there were thousand flowers,
Changing with the changing hours;
Fountains dancing in the shade
To music by their murmuring made;
While around acacia trees
Trifled with the sun and breeze.
Wandering step and wandering sight
Were at first enough delight;
I gazed upon the azure sky,
Where the clouds went floating by,
Some tinged with the serpentine
Of the rainbow's opal line—
Others laden with the dew
Which illumines Morning's hue.
Then I mark'd a temple rise,
Made of marble, such as lies
In the vein of virgin snow
Round the Parian mountain's brow,
White as it were snow had grown,
By some magic, into stone.
All were to that shrine addrest,
And I enter'd with the rest;
All asked boons—what could I do,
But like them ask something too?
Down I knelt before the shrine,
Where was placed the Boy divine,
And I pray'd that I might prove
That deep happiness of love
Which will find all that can bless
In its own dear faithfulness.
As the God smiled on my prayer,
Melts the temple into air.
I waken'd:—said my heart to me,
How like to reality!
Thus, alas! our hopes take flight,
Like the visions of the night!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011 1110111 0111 1010101 111001 1010111 01101010 10101010 1010001 110111001 1010101 110101 100101001 0110101 11010101 1011101 111010 101101 1010101 11101 1110101 1110111 0011101 101101 1110111 1110011 101111 0110101 1111111 1111101 1110101 1110101 0111111 1110011 1111111 01111 1011111 1010011 1111111 11110 10110111 1010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,306 |
Words | 238 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 42 |
Lines Amount | 42 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,001 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 235 |
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Submitted on April 16, 2021
Modified on March 15, 2023
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