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
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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