Analysis of Ariadne Waking

James Henry Leigh Hunt 1784 (Southgate, London) – 1859



The moist and quiet morn was scarcely breaking,
When Ariadne in her bower was waking;
Her eyelids still were closing, and she heard
But indistinctly yet a little bird,
That in the leaves o’erhead, waiting the sun,
Seemed answering another distant one.
She waked, but stirred not, only just to please
Her pillow-nestling cheek; while the full seas,
The birds, the leaves, the lulling love o’ernight
The happy thought of the returning light,
The sweet, self-willed content, conspired to keep
Her senses lingering in the feel of sleep;
And with a little smile she seemed to say,
“I know my love is near me, and ’tis day.”


Scheme AABBCCDDBEFFGG
Poetic Form
Metre 01010111010 10100010110 011010011 1110101 100111001 1100010101 1111110111 0101011011 010101011 0101100101 01111001011 01010000111 0101011111 1111111011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 623
Words 110
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 485
Words per stanza (avg) 107
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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James Henry Leigh Hunt

James Henry Leigh Hunt, best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist, poet and writer. more…

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