Analysis of Fatigue

Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)



Stupefy my heart to every day's monotony,
Seal up my eyes, I would not look so far,
Chasten my steps to peaceful regularity,
Bow down my head lest I behold a star.
Fill my days with work, a thousand calm necessities
Leaving no moment to consecrate to hope,
Girdle my thoughts within the dull circumferences
Of facts which form the actual in one short hour's scope.

Give me dreamless sleep, and loose night's power over me,
Shut my ears to sounds only tumultuous then,
Bid Fancy slumber, and steal away its potency,
Or Nature wakes and strives to live again.

Let each day pass, well ordered in its usefulness,
Unlit by sunshine, unscarred by storm;
Dower me with strength and curb all foolish eagerness --
The law exacts obedience. Instruct, I will conform.


Scheme ABABCDCD AEAE FGFG
Poetic Form
Metre 111110010100 1111111111 10111100100 1111110101 1111101010100 1011011011 101101011 11110100011101 111101110101 11111101001 1101001011100 1101011101 111111001100 111111 111101110100 01010100011101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 764
Words 135
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 199
Words per stanza (avg) 44
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Amy Lowell

Amy Lawrence Lowell was an American poet of the imagist school from Brookline, Massachusetts who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. more…

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