Analysis of Truly He Hath A Sweet Bed
Brown earth, sun-soaked,
Beneath his head
And over the quiet limbs....
Through time unreckoned
Lay this brown earth for him. Now is he come.
Truly he hath a sweet bed.
The perfume shed
From invisible gardens is chaliced by kindly airs
And carried for welcome to the stranger.
Long seasons ere he came, this wilderness
They habited.
They, and the mist of stars
Down-spread
About him as a hush of vespering birds.
They, and the sun, the moon:
Naught now denies him the moon's coming,
Nor the morning trail of gold,
The luminous print of evening, red
At the sun's tread.
The brown earth holds him.
The stars and little winds, the friendly moon
And sun attend in turn his rest.
They linger above him, softly moving. They are gracious,
And gently-wise: as though remembering how his hunger,
His kinship, knew them once but blindly
In thoughts unsaid,
As a dream that fled.
So is he theirs assuredly as the seasons.
So is his sleep by them for ever companioned.
...And, perchance, by the voices of bright children playing
And knowing not: by the echo of young laughter
When their dancing is sped.
Truly he hath a sweet bed.
Scheme | abxaxB bxcda xbxefxbb xexdcxbb xafcb B |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 0111 0100101 111 1111111111 1011011 0011 1010010111101 0101101010 1101111100 11 100111 11 011101111 100101 110110110 1010111 010011101 1011 01111 0101010101 01010111 11001110101110 01011101001110 11111110 0101 10111 111101001010 1111111101 0011010111010 010110101110 111011 1011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,213 |
Words | 199 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 5, 8, 8, 5, 1 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 145 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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