Analysis of Insomnia
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
Thin are the night-skirts left behind
By daybreak hours that onward creep,
And thin, alas! the shred of sleep
That wavers with the spirit's wind:
But in half-dreams that shift and roll
And still remember and forget,
My soul this hour has drawn your soul
A little nearer yet.
Our lives, most dear, are never near,
Our thoughts are never far apart,
Though all that draws us heart to heart
Seems fainter now and now more clear.
To-night Love claims his full control,
And with desire and with regret
My soul this hour has drawn your soul
A little nearer yet.
Is there a home where heavy earth
Melts to bright air that breathes no pain,
Where water leaves no thirst again
And springing fire is Love's new birth?
If faith long bound to one true goal
May there at length its hope beget,
My soul that hour shall draw your soul
For ever nearer yet.
Scheme | abbacdCD effecdCD gxxgcdcd |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101 11101101 01010111 1110101 10111101 01010001 111101111 010101 101111101 101110101 11111111 11010111 11111101 010100101 111101111 010101 11011101 11111111 11011101 010101111 11111111 11111101 111101111 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 969 |
Words | 158 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 221 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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