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.
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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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