Analysis of Sound Sleep

Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)



Some are laughing, some are weeping;
She is sleeping, only sleeping.
Round her rest wild flowers are creeping;
There the wind is heaping, heaping
Sweetest sweets of Summer's keeping.
By the corn-fields ripe for reaping.

There are lilies, and there blushes
The deep rose, and there the thrushes
Sing till latest sunlight flushes
In the west; a fresh wind brushes
Through the leaves while evening hushes.

There by day the lark is singing
And the grass and weeds are springing;
There by night the bat is winging;
There for ever winds are bringing
Far-off chimes of church-bells ringing.

Night and morning, noon and even,
Their sound fills her dreams with Heaven:
The long strife at lent is striven:
Till her grave-bands shall be riven
Such is the good portion given
To her soul at rest and shriven.


Scheme AAAAAA BBCCB AAAAA DEEEED
Poetic Form
Metre 11101110 11101010 101110110 10111010 10111010 10111110 11100110 01101010 1110110 00101110 1011101 11101110 00101110 11101110 11101110 11111110 10101010 11101110 01111110 10111110 11011010 1011101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 784
Words 139
Sentences 7
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 6, 5, 5, 6
Lines Amount 22
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 159
Words per stanza (avg) 34
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 29, 2023

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Christina Georgina Rossetti

Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote various romantic, devotional, and children's poems. "Goblin Market" and "Remember" remain famous. She wrote the words of two Christmas carols well known in the UK: "In the Bleak Midwinter", later set by Gustav Holst and by Harold Darke, and "Love Came Down at Christmas", set by Harold Darke and by other composers. more…

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