Analysis of Spirits
Robert Seymour Bridges 1844 (Walmer, Kent) – 1930 (Boars Hill, Berkshire)
Angel spirits of sleep,
White-robed, with silver hair,
In your meadows fair,
Where the willows weep,
And the sad moonbeam
On the gliding stream
Writes her scatter'd dream:
Angel spirits of sleep,
Dancing to the weir
In the hollow roar
Of its waters deep;
Know ye how men say
That ye haunt no more
Isle and grassy shore
With your moonlit play;
That ye dance not here,
White-robed spirits of sleep,
All the summer night
Threading dances light?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101011 111101 0111 1011 0011 10101 10101 101011 10101 00101 11101 11111 11111 10101 1111 11111 111011 10101 10101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 449 |
Words | 80 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 12 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 175 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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