Analysis of Sleep
Walter de la Mare 1873 (Charlton, London) – 1956 (Twickenham)
When all, and birds, and creeping beasts,
When the dark of night is deep,
From the moving wonder of their lives
Commit themselves to sleep.
Without a thought, or fear, they shut
The narrow gates of sense;
Heedless and quiet, in slumber turn
Their strength to impotence.
The transient strangeness of the earth
Their spirits no more see:
Within a silent gloom withdrawn,
They slumber in secrecy.
Two worlds they have--a globe forgot,
Wheeling from dark to light;
And all the enchanted realm of dream
That burgeons out of night.
Scheme | XAXA XXXX XBXB XCXC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 11010101 1011111 101010111 010111 01011111 010111 10100101 111100 01010101 110111 01010101 1100100 11110101 101111 010010111 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 518 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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