Analysis of Oh, For The Time When I Shall Sleep
Emily Jane Brontë 1818 (Thornton) – 1848 (Haworth)
Oh, for the time when I shall sleep
Without identity,
And never care how rain may steep,
Or snow may cover me!
No promised heaven these wild desires
Could all, or half, fulful;
No threatened hell, with quenchless fires,
Subdue this quenchless will!
So said I, and still say the same;
Still, to my death, will say—
Three gods within this little frame
Are warring night and day:
Heaven could not hold them all, and yet
They all are held in me;
And must be mine till I forget
My present entity!
Oh, for the time when in my breast
Their struggles will be o'er!
Oh, for the day when I shall rest,
And never suffer more!
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEFGBGB HXHX |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11011111 010100 01011111 111101 1101011010 11111 11011110 01111 11101101 111111 11011101 110101 101111101 111101 01111101 110100 11011011 1101110 11011111 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 606 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 158 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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