Analysis of Michael Angelo In Reply To The Passage Upon His Staute Of Sleeping Night
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
GRATEFUL is Sleep, my life in stone bound fast;
More grateful still: while wrong and shame shall last,
On me can Time no happier state bestow
Than to be left unconscious of the woe.
Ah then, lest you awaken me, speak low.
Grateful is Sleep, more grateful still to be
Of marble; for while shameless wrong and woe
Prevail, 'tis best to neither hear nor see.
Then wake me not, I pray you. Hush, speak low.
Come, gentle Sleep, Death's image tho' thou art,
Come share my couch, nor speedily depart;
How sweet thus living without life to lie,
Thus without death how sweet it is to die.
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Metre | 1011110111 1101110111 11111100101 111110101 1111010111 1011110111 1101110101 0111110111 1111111111 1101110111 1111110001 1111001111 1011111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 590 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 446 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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