Analysis of Sound Sleep
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
Some are laughing, some are weeping;
She is sleeping, only sleeping.
Round her rest wild flowers are creeping;
There the wind is heaping, heaping
Sweetest sweets of Summer's keeping.
By the corn-fields ripe for reaping.
There are lilies, and there blushes
The deep rose, and there the thrushes
Sing till latest sunlight flushes
In the west; a fresh wind brushes
Through the leaves while evening hushes.
There by day the lark is singing
And the grass and weeds are springing;
There by night the bat is winging;
There for ever winds are bringing
Far-off chimes of church-bells ringing.
Night and morning, noon and even,
Their sound fills her dreams with Heaven:
The long strife at lent is striven:
Till her grave-bands shall be riven
Such is the good portion given
To her soul at rest and shriven.
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Metre | 11101110 11101010 101110110 10111010 10111010 10111110 11100110 01101010 1110110 00101110 1011101 11101110 00101110 11101110 11101110 11111110 10101010 11101110 01111110 10111110 11011010 1011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 784 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 5, 5, 6 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 159 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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