Analysis of Sleeping With The Muse
Sleeping with the Muse,
my nights have grown short
Sleeping with the Muse,
all senses comport
Sleeping with the Muse,
words dance with delight
Sleeping with the Muse,
confronting my fright
Sleeping with the Muse,
her will tests again
Sleeping with the Muse,
not lover or friend
Sleeping with the Muse,
my dreams sacrificed
Sleeping with the Muse,
all rest put on ice
Sleeping with the Muse,
the whispers come clean
Sleeping with the Muse,
excuses demeaned
Sleeping with the Muse,
my spool is respun
Sleeping with the Muse,
divorced from the sun
Sleeping with the Muse,
in darkness I learn
Sleeping with the Muse,
my spirit confirmed
Sleeping with the Muse
till dawn’s freeing light
Sleeping with the Muse
—new verse to take flight
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)
| Scheme | Ab Ab Ac Ac Ad Ax Ax Ax Ax Ax Ad Ax Ax Ax Ac Ac x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10101 11111 10101 11001 10101 11101 10101 01011 10101 01101 10101 11011 10101 1110 10101 11111 10101 01011 10101 01001 10101 1111 10101 01101 10101 01011 10101 11001 10101 11101 10101 11111 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 776 |
| Words | 129 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 17 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 33 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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