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 |
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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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