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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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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Carl Sandburg

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