Analysis of The Real And The Ideal
I feel I have - and who has not?
An inner and outer life:
The one may be a dreary lot,
With sorrow and with suff'ring rife;
While in the other may be found
A magic world of fancies fair,
Where brightest dreams of joy abound,
And never enters dark despair.
The life I live may seem to those
Who gaze upon it outwardly
A drear existence, full of woes
And never-ceasing misery;
But in the mystic life of mind,
Abstracted from earth's things of sense,
Oblivious to my grief, I find
A joy exalted and intense.
My outward life is prison-gloomed,
My life of dreams is fancy free;
The one is ever care-consumed,
The other tranquil as can be.
Existence that is sternly real
As mine would crush the heart with grief,
Were it not that the bright ideal
With visioned joy imparts relief.
There's not a joy the world can give,
There's not a bliss the heart has known,
But in the spirit life I live
I have the power to make my own.
I care not what my actual lot
While thus sustained my soul can be;
My sorrows shall be all forgot
In fairest dreams of poesy.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH AFXFIJIJ XKXKAFAE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111 1100101 01110101 1100111 10010111 01011101 11011101 01010101 01111111 11011100 01010111 01010100 10010111 1011111 010011111 01010001 11011101 11111101 01110101 01010111 01011101 11110111 01110101 1110101 11010111 11010111 10010111 110101111 111111001 11011111 11011101 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,049 |
Words | 203 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 203 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 09, 2023
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