Analysis of Soul's Call

Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)



When you wake from troubled slumbers
With a dream-bewildered brain,
And old leaves which no man numbers
Chattering tap against the pane;

And the midnight wind is wailing
Till your very life seems quailing
As the long gusts shudder and sigh:
Know you not that homeless cry

Is my love's, which cannot die,
Wailing through Eternity?

* * * * *

When beside the glowing embers,
Sitting in the twilight lone,
Drop on drop you hear November's
Melancholy monotone,

As the heavy rain comes sweeping,
With a sound of weeping, weeping,
Till your blood is chilled with fears;
Know you not those falling tears,

Flowing fast through years on years,
For my sobs within your ears?

* * * * *

When with dolorous moan the billows
Surge around where, far and wide,
Leagues on leagues of sea-worn hollows
Throb with thunders of the tide,

And the weary waves in breaking
Fill you, thrill you, as with aching
Memories of our love of yore
Where you pace the sounding shore,

Hear you not, through roll and roar,
Soul call soul for evermore?


Scheme ABAB CCDD DX AEAE CCAA AA AFAF CCGG GG
Poetic Form
Metre 1111101 1010101 01111110 10010101 0011110 1110111 10111001 1111101 1111101 1010100 1 10101010 100011 11111010 10010 10101110 10111010 1111111 1111101 1011111 1110111 1 1111010 1011101 11111110 1110101 00101010 11111110 100110111 1110101 1111101 111110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 991
Words 184
Sentences 4
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 2, 1, 4, 4, 2, 1, 4, 4, 2
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 72
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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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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