Analysis of Like Some Wild Sleeper

Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)



Like some wild sleeper who alone at night
Walks with unseeing eyes along a height,
With death below and only stars above;
I, in broad daylight, walk as if in sleep,
Along the edges of life's perilous steep,
The lost somnambulist of love.

I, in broad day, go walking in a dream,
Led on in safety by the starry gleam
Of thy blue eyes that hold my heart in thrall;
Let no one wake me rudely, lest one day,
Startled to find how far I've gone astray,
I dash my life out in my fall.


Scheme AABCCB DDEFFE
Poetic Form
Metre 1111010111 11110101 1101010101 101111101 01010111001 01111 1011110001 1101010101 1111111101 1111110111 1011111101 11111011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 484
Words 97
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 6
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 183
Words per stanza (avg) 48
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Mathilde Blind

Mathilde Blind, was a German-born British poet. Her work was praised by Matthew Arnold and French politician and historian Louis Blanc. more…

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