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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