Lyric Poem · Dreams & Sleep
I Dream’d in a Dream
by Walt Whitman
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Quick facts
- Poem
- I Dream’d in a Dream
- Poet
- Walt Whitman
- Length
- 7 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem, Short Poems
- Themes
- Dreams & Sleep, Love, Friendship, Short
Craft notes
How this poem works
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- Shape
- 7 lines · 2 stanzas of 3–4 lines
- End rhyme
- No regular perfect end rhyme. The poem may still be using slant rhyme, assonance, or internal echo, which this check does not score.
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Text, source & rights
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- Author record
- Walt Whitman1819–1892
- Source record
- PoetryDBI Dream’d in a Dream by walt-whitman, PoetryDB transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 feb0d93b632a6b6e…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.