Analysis of Serenade

Henry Timrod 1828 (Charleston) – 1867 (Columbia)



Hide, happy damask, from the stars,
What sleep enfolds behind your veil,
But open to the fairy cars
On which the dreams of midnight sail;
And let the zephyrs rise and fall
About her in the curtained gloom,
And then return to tell me all
The silken secrets of the room.

Ah, dearest! may the elves that sway
Thy fancies come from emerald plots,
Where they have dozed and dreamed all day
In hearts of blue forget-me-nots.
And one perhaps shall whisper thus:
Awake! and light the darkness, Sweet!
While thou art reveling with us,
He watches in the lonely street.


Scheme ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH
Poetic Form Traditional rhyme
Metre 11010101 1110111 11010101 1101111 01010101 0100011 01011111 01010101 11010111 11011101 11110111 01110111 01011101 01010101 11110011 11000101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 551
Words 103
Sentences 7
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 8
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 220
Words per stanza (avg) 51
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Henry Timrod

Henry Timrod was an American poet, often called the poet laureate of the Confederacy. more…

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