Analysis of Lines On Seeing My Wife And Two Children Sleeping In The Same Chamber
Thomas Hood 1799 (London) – 1845 (London)
And has the earth lost its so spacious round,
The sky its blue circumference above,
That in this little chamber there is found
Both earth and heaven—my universe of love!
All that my God can give me, or remove,
Here sleeping, save myself, in mimic death.
Sweet that in this small compass I behove
To live their living and to breathe their breath!
Almost I wish that, with one common sigh,
We might resign all mundane care and strife,
And seek together that transcendent sky,
Where Father, Mother, Children, Husband, Wife,
Together pant in everlasting life!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101111101 011101001 1011010111 1101011011 1111111101 110110101 110111011 1111001111 111111101 1101101101 0101010101 1101010101 010100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 565 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 440 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 96 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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