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!


Scheme ABABCDBDEFEFF
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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Thomas Hood

Thomas Hood was a British humorist and poet. His son, Tom Hood, became a well known playwright and editor. more…

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