Analysis of The Dreamer
WHO seeks the shore where dreams outpour
Their floods in Slumber Seas
Lives all night long within a song
Of murmuring mysteries.
Where stars are lit above the pit
That holds the hollow dark,
Into their dawn he shall sail on
In an enchanted barque.
He shall not fear tho’ in his ear
The thrusting cranks of Time,
Thro’ blaze and gloom, with crash and boom,
Ring in tremendous rhyme,
Beyond the cloud that doth enshroud
Saturn with beauteous bands,
Where at the knees of Hyades
Creation claps her hands.
He shall bow low to God and know
Keen sorrow and delight,
The day’s full pride and eventide,
The inmost thoughts of night.
Into their calm white waves of balm
His soul shall plunge and swim,
Past silver-globed full moons unrobed
That float round Heaven’s rim.
He shall bow low to God and know
God, and be known of Him;
He shall surprise within the skies
The watching Seraphim.
He shall be known about the Throne
When names are named above,
As one redeemed through dreams he dreamed—
As one Beloved of Love.
Scheme | xaba cxxb xdxd xeae Fgcg xhch Fhxd xixi |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111 110101 11110101 1100100 11110101 110101 01111111 010101 11111011 010111 11011101 100101 01011101 10111 1101110 010101 11111101 110001 011101 01111 01111111 111101 1101111 111101 11111101 101111 11010101 0101 11110101 111101 11011111 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,166 |
Words | 185 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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