Analysis of The Bench Of Boors

Herman Melville 1819 – 1891



In bed I muse on Tenier's boors,
Embrowned and beery losels all;
A wakeful brain
Elaborates pain:
Within low doors the slugs of boors
Laze and yawn and doze again.

In dreams they doze, the drowsy boors,
Their hazy hovel warm and small:
Thought's ampler bound
But chill is found:
Within low doors the basking boors
Snugly hug the ember-mound.

Sleepless, I see the slumberous boors
Their blurred eyes blink, their eyelids fall:
Thought's eager sight
Aches--overbright!
Within low doors the boozy boors
Cat-naps take in pipe-bowl light.


Scheme ABCCAX ABDDAD ABEDAE
Poetic Form
Metre 0111111 101011 011 0101 01110111 1010101 01110101 11010101 111 1111 01110101 1010101 1011011 1111111 1101 11 01110101 1110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 524
Words 90
Sentences 5
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 141
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 14, 2023

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Herman Melville

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