Analysis of The Evening-Watch: A Dialogue
Henry Vaughan 1621 (Brecknockshire) – 1695
1 Farewell! I go to sleep; but when
2 The day-star springs, I'll wake again.
3 Go, sleep in peace; and when thou liest
4 Unnumber'd in thy dust, when all this frame
5 Is but one dram, and what thou now descriest
6 In sev'ral parts shall want a name,
7 Then may his peace be with thee, and each dust
8 Writ in his book, who ne'er betray'd man's trust!
9 Amen! but hark, ere we two stray
10 How many hours dost think 'till day?
11 Ah go; th'art weak, and sleepy. Heav'n
12 Is a plain watch, and without figures winds
13 All ages up; who drew this circle, even
14 He fills it; days and hours are blinds.
15 Yet this take with thee. The last gasp of time
16 Is thy first breath, and man's eternal prime.
Scheme | AA BCBCBB XB AXXXDD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111 01111101 11010111 10111111 111101111 0111101 1111111011 1011110111 01111111 110101111 1111110101 1011001101 11011111010 111101011 1111101111 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 796 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 6, 2, 6 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 14 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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