Analysis of Sister, Awake! Close not Your Eyes

Thomas Bateson 1570 – 1630



Sister, awake! close not your eyes,
        The day her light discloses;
    And the bright morning doth arise
        Out of her bed of roses.

See the clear sun, the world's bright eye,
        In at our window peeping;
    Lo, how he blusheth to espy
        Us idle wenches sleeping!

Therefore awake, make haste I say,
       And let us without staying
   All in our gowns of green so gay
       Into the park a maying.


Scheme ABAB XCXC DCDC
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 10011111 0101010 00110101 1101110 10110111 01101010 1111110 1101010 1011111 0110110 101011111 010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 431
Words 72
Sentences 5
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 94
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 19, 2023

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Thomas Bateson

Thomas Bateson, Batson or Betson was an Anglo-Irish writer of madrigals in the early 17th century. more…

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