Analysis of Love and Sleep
Arthur Symons 1865 (Milford Haven) – 1945
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
I loved, and have forgot,
And yet
Love tells me she will not
Forget.
She it was bid me go;
Love goes
By what strange ways, ah! no
One knows.
Because I cease to weep,
She weeps.
Here by the sea in sleep,
Love sleeps.
| Scheme | aBab cdcd efef abaB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111011 11 111111 11 110101 01 111111 01 111111 11 111111 11 011111 11 110101 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 301 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 55 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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