Analysis of Why Will You Haunt Me
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
Why will you haunt me unawares,
And walk into my sleep,
Pacing its shadowy thoroughfares,
Where long-dried perfume scents the airs,
While ghosts of sorrow creep,
Where on Hope's ruined altar-stairs,
With ineffectual beams,
The Moon of Memory coldly glares
Upon the land of dreams?
My yearning eyes were fain to look
Upon your hidden face;
Their love, alas! you could not brook,
But in your own you mutely took
My hand, and for a space
You wrung it till I throbbed and shook,
And woke with wildest moan
And wet face channeled like a brook
With your tears or my own.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101 010111 10110010 11101101 111101 11110101 101001 011100101 010111 11010111 011101 11011111 1011111 110101 11111101 011101 01110101 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 572 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 223 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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