Analysis of Love's Phantom
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
SHUT out day's wintry beams!
Sleep, brood upon my brain!
For sweet sleep bringeth dreams
And love again!
Love cold and wan and sere
Heaped over with tears and snows;
Lo, born within its bier,
Blooms like a rose!
Its fragrance fills each vein,
Its fervour flushes my heart,
I feel through breast and brain
Its rapturous smart;
The look, the tone, the deep
Supreme smile of delight:
Ah, fickle as love, false sleep,
Why take thy flight?
| Scheme | ABAXXCXC BDBDEFEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111101 110111 11111 0101 110101 1101101 110111 1101 110111 111011 111101 11001 010101 011101 1101111 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 427 |
| Words | 80 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 169 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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