Analysis of To M. S. G. : When I Dream That You Love Me
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
When I dream that you love me, you'll surely forgive;
Extend not your anger to sleep;
For in visions alone your affection can live,--
I rise, and it leaves me to weep.
Then, Morpheus! envelope my faculties fast,
Shed o'er me your languor benign;
Should the dream of to-night but resemble the last,
What rapture celestial is mine!
They tell us that slumber, the sister of death,
Mortality's emblem is given;
To fate how I long to resign my frail breath,
If this be a foretaste of heaven!
Ah! frown not, sweet lady, unbend your soft brow,
Nor deem me to happy in this;
If I sin in my dream, I atone it for now,
Thus doom'd but to gaze upon bliss.
Though in visions, sweet lady, perhaps you may smile,
Oh, think not my penance deficient!
When dreams of your presence my slumbers beguile,
To awake will be torture sufficient.
Scheme | XAXA BCBC DEDE FGFG HIHI |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111111111001 01111011 101001101011 11011111 111011001 11011101 101111101001 11001011 11111001011 110110 11111101111 111001110 1111101111 11111001 111011101111 11111011 101011001111 111110010 1111101101 1011110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 810 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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