Analysis of A Song
Archibald Lampman 1861 (Upper Canada) – 1899 (Ottawa, Canada)
Oh night and sleep,
Ye are so soft and deep,
I am so weary, come ye soon to me.
Oh hours that creep,
With so much time to weep,
I am so tired, can ye no swifter be?
Come, night, anear;
I'll whisper in thine ear
What makes me so unhappy, full of care;
Dear night, I die
For love that all men buy
With tears, and know not it is dark despair.
Dear night, I pray,
How is it that men say
That love is sweet? It is not sweet to me.
For one boy's sake
A poor girl's heart must break;
So sweet, so true, and yet it could not be!
Oh, I loved well,
Such love as none can tell:
It was so true, it could not make him know:
For he was blind,
All light and all unkind:
Oh, had he known, would he have hurt me so?
Oh night and sleep,
Ye are so soft and deep,
I am so weary, come ye soon to me.
Oh hours that creep,
With so much time to weep,
I am so tired, can ye no swifter be?
Scheme | AABAAB cccddc cxbeeb ffghhg AABAAB |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (33%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 1101 111101 1111011111 11011 111111 11110111101 111 110011 1111010111 1111 111111 1101111101 1111 111111 1111111111 1111 011111 1111011111 1111 111111 1111111111 1111 110101 1111111111 1101 111101 1111011111 11011 111111 11110111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 842 |
Words | 192 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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