Analysis of Sleeping And Waking

Sydney Thompson Dobell 1824 (Kent) – 1874



I Had a dream-I lay upon thy breast,
In that sweet place where we lay long ago:
I thought the morning woodbine to and fro
With playful shadows whipped away my rest,
And in my sleep I cried to thee, too blest,

'Rise, oh my love, the morning sun is bright,
Let us arise, oh love, let us arise;
The flowers awake, the lark is in the skies,
I will array myself in my delight,
And we will-' and I woke to death and night!


Scheme ABBAA CDDCC
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Etheree  (20%)
Metre 1101110111 0111111101 110101101 110110111 0011111111 1111010111 1101111101 01001011001 110110101 0110111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 415
Words 87
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 5
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 157
Words per stanza (avg) 43
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Sydney Thompson Dobell

Sydney Thompson Dobell, English poet and critic, was born at Cranbrook, Kent. more…

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