Analysis of Slumber Songs
John McCrae 1872 (Guelph) – 1918 (Boulogne-sur-Mer)
Sleep, little eyes
That brim with childish tears amid thy play,
Be comforted! No grief of night can weigh
Against the joys that throng thy coming day.
Sleep, little heart!
There is no place in Slumberland for tears:
Life soon enough will bring its chilling fears
And sorrows that will dim the after years.
Sleep, little heart!
Ah, little eyes
Dead blossoms of a springtime long ago,
That life's storm crushed and left to lie below
The benediction of the falling snow!
Sleep, little heart
That ceased so long ago its frantic beat!
The years that come and go with silent feet
Have naught to tell save this -- that rest is sweet.
Dear little heart.
| Scheme | abbb CxddC aeee Cfffc |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101 1111010111 1100111111 0101111101 1101 11110111 1101111101 0101110101 1101 1101 110101101 1111011101 001010101 1101 1111011101 0111011101 1111111111 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 642 |
| Words | 120 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 4, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 128 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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