Analysis of When You Wake
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
When you wake from troubled slumbers
With a dream-bewildered brain,
And old leaves which no man numbers
Chattering tap against the pane;
And the midnight wind is wailing
Till you very life seems quailing
As the long gusts shudder and sigh:
Know you not that homeless cry
Is my love's, which cannot die,
Wailing through Eternity?
When beside the glowing embers,
Sitting in the twilight lone,
Drop on drop you hear November's
Melancholy monotone,
As the heavy rain comes sweeping,
With a sound of weeping, weeping,
Till your blood is chilled with fears;
Know you not those falling tears,
Flowing fast through years on years,
For my sobs within your ears?
When with dolorous moan the billows
Surge around where, far and wide,
Leagues on leagues of sea-worn hollows
Throb with thunders of the tide,
And the weary waves in breaking
Fill you, thrill you, as with aching
Memories of our love of yore,
Where you pace the sounding shore,
Hear you not, through roll and roar,
Soul call soul for evermore?
Scheme | ABABCCDDDX AEAECCAAAA AFAFCCGGGG |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (23%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1111101 1010101 01111110 10010101 0011110 1110111 10111001 1111101 1111101 1010100 10101010 100011 11111010 10010 10101110 10111010 1111111 1111101 1011111 1110111 1111010 1011101 11111110 1110101 00101010 11111110 100110111 1110101 1111101 111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,002 |
Words | 174 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 264 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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