Analysis of Sleeping With The Muse
Sleeping with Laura
and not making love
Lost in her aura
and thoughts from above
Sleeping with Laura
all vanity chaste
A feeling impregnates
—the blame heaven laced
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
| Scheme | Ab ab Ac xc x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10110 01101 10010 01101 10110 11001 01001 01101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 203 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 33 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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