Analysis of All Is Well

Arthur Hugh Clough 1819 (Liverpool) – 1861 (Florence)



Whate'er you dream, with doubt possessed,
Keep, keep it snug within your breast,
And lay you down and take your rest;
And when you wake, to work again,
The wind it blows, the vessel goes,
And where and whither, no one knows.

'Twill all be well: no need of care;
Though how it will, and when, and where,
We cannot see, and can't declare.
In spite of dreams, in spite of thought,
'Tis not in vain, and not for nought,
The wind it blows, the ship it goes,
Though where and whither, no one knows.


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Poetic Form
Metre 10111101 11110111 01110111 01111101 01110101 01010111 11111111 11110101 11010101 01110111 11010111 01110111 11010111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 499
Words 97
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 7
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 184
Words per stanza (avg) 48
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 07, 2023

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Arthur Hugh Clough

Arthur Hugh Clough was an English poet, an educationalist, and the devoted assistant to ground-breaking nurse Florence Nightingale. more…

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