Analysis of Slumber-Song
Siegfried Sassoon 1886 (Matfield) – 1967 (Heytesbury)
Sleep; and my song shall build about your bed
A paradise of dimness. You shall feel
The folding of tired wings; and peace will dwell
Throned in your silence: and one hour shall hold
Summer, and midnight, and immensity
Lulled to forgetfulness. For, where you dream,
The stately gloom of foliage shall embower
Your slumbering thought with tapestries of blue.
And there shall be no memory of the sky,
Nor sunlight with its cruelty of swords.
But, to your soul that sinks from deep to deep
Through drowned and glimmering colour, Time shall be
Only slow rhythmic swaying; and your breath;
And roses in the darkness; and my love.
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Metre | 1011110111 01011111 01011010111 10110011011 100101 1111111 010111011 11001110011 01111100101 11111011 1111111111 1101001111 1011010011 0100010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 630 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 497 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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