Analysis of The Watch

Barry Cornwall 1787 (Leeds, Yorkshire) – 1874 (London)



I wakened on my hot, hard bed;
Upon the pillow lay my head;
Beneath the pillow I could hear
My little watch was ticking clear.
I thought the throbbing of it went
Like my continual discontent;
I thought it said in every tick:
I am so sick, so sick, so sick:
O death, come quick, come quick, come quick,
Come quick, come quick, come quick, come quick...


Scheme AABCDDEEEE
Poetic Form Etheree  (40%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 1111111 01010111 01010111 11011101 11010111 110100001 111101001 11111111 11111111 11111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 359
Words 69
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 266
Words per stanza (avg) 67
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Barry Cornwall

Bryan Waller Procter (pseud. Barry Cornwall) was an English poet who served as a Commissioner in Lunacy. more…

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