Analysis of Dream Girl
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
You will come one day in a waver of love,
Tender as dew, impetuous as rain,
The tan of the sun will be on your skin,
The purr of the breeze in your murmuring speech,
You will pose with a hill-flower grace.
You will come, with your slim, expressive arms,
A poise of the head no sculptor has caught
And nuances spoken with shoulder and neck,
Your face in a pass-and-repass of moods
As many as skies in delicate change
Of cloud and blue and flimmering sun.
Yet,
You may not come, O girl of a dream,
We may but pass as the world goes by
And take from a look of eyes into eyes,
A film of hope and a memoried day.
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Metre | 11111001011 101101011 0110111111 01101011001 111101101 1111110101 0110111011 01001011001 1100100111 1101101001 1101011 1 111111101 111110111 0110111011 01110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 600 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 6, 5 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 155 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 29, 2023
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