Analysis of Sleep



I’ve got a good friend, called sleep.
I love it, oh so deep.
It comes to me every night,
And fills me with delight.
I wish it would stay for longer,
My love for it ever grows stronger,
But it vanishes much too soon,
It only comes at the next moon.
Last night it came rather late,
That anguish in bed in hate.
Sleep fills me with endless pleasure,
Joy impossible to measure.
Tonight it will come again,
But this day I must live until then.
But some time it won’t go away,
It’s called Resurrection day!
And then it never will leave me,
Though others may think to grieve me.


Scheme AABBCCDDEECCFFGGHH
Poetic Form
Metre 1101111 111111 11111001 011101 11111110 111110110 11100111 11011011 1111101 1100101 11111010 10100110 0111101 111111011 11111101 110101 01110111 11011111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 560
Words 111
Sentences 9
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 438
Words per stanza (avg) 111
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Submitted by jemanuelson on June 08, 2020

Modified on March 14, 2023

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