Analysis of Ballade Of The Dream
Andrew Lang 1844 (Selkirk, Scottish Borders) – 1912 (Banchory)
Swift as sound of music fled
When no more the organ sighs,
Sped as all old days are sped,
So your lips, love, and your eyes,
So your gentle-voiced replies
Mine one hour in sleep that seem,
Rise and flit when slumber flies,
Following darkness like a dream!
Like the scent from roses red,
Like the dawn from golden skies,
Like the semblance of the dead
From the living love that hies,
Like the shifting shade that lies
On the moonlight-silvered stream,
So you rise when dreams arise,
Following darkness like a dream!
Could some spell, or sung or said,
Could some kindly witch and wise,
Lull for aye this dreaming head
In a mist of memories,
I would lie like him who lies
Where the lights on Latmos gleam, -
Wake not, find not Paradise
Following darkness like a dream!
Sleep, that giv'st what Life denies,
Shadowy bounties and supreme,
Bring the dearest face that flies
Following darkness like a dream!
Scheme | ababbcbC ababbcbC abaxbcxC bcbC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101 1110101 1111111 1111011 1110101 11100111 1011101 10010101 1011101 1011101 1010101 1010111 1010111 10111 1111101 10010101 1111111 1110101 1111101 0011100 1111111 101111 111110 10010101 1111101 10010001 1010111 10010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 886 |
Words | 165 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 177 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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