Analysis of The Sleeping Beauty
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
There was intoxication in the air;
The wind, keen blowing from across the seas,
O'er leagues of new-ploughed land and heathery leas,
Smelt of wild gorse whose gold flamed everywhere.
And undertone of song pulsed far and near,
The soaring larks filled heaven with ecstasies,
And, like a living clock among the trees,
The shouting cuckoo struck the time of year.
For now the Sun had found the earth once more,
And woke the Sleeping Beauty with a kiss;
Who thrilled with light of love in every pore,
Opened her flower-blue eyes, and looked in his.
Then all things felt life fluttering at their core--
The world shook mystical in lambent bliss.
Scheme | ABBACBBC DEDXDE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110010001 0111010101 1011111011 111111110 010111101 010111011 0101010101 010110111 1101110111 0101010101 11111101001 10010110101 11111100111 011100011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 648 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 254 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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