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 |
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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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