Analysis of The endless night (sleep apnoea)
Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)
I lie awake the endless night
And try to sleep without success,
My breathing comes so haltingly
I'm in such deep distress.
The night-time seems eternity
Barely broken by my dreamless sleep,
Night creatures fill my worried mind
As round the house my cats do creep.
I feel fatigued all through the day
Yet in the night I lie awake,
Although I drowse from time to time
My great weariness cannot be slaked.
The clock torments with endless ticking
Yet the alarm will not resound,
Although I lie awake an forever
The daylight will not come around.
The night is like a creeping death
The Lord has sent to torment me,
My blindness lasts eleven hours
Then with a new day I can see.
I cling to daylight futilely
In hope of keeping away the night,
But all too soon I’m on my back
A victim again of my weary plight.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | ABCB CDXD XXXA XEXE XCXC CAXA XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101 01110101 11011100 101101 01110100 10101111 11011101 11011111 11011101 10011101 1111111 111001011 01111010 1001111 111011010 0111101 01110101 0111111 110101010 11011111 11111 011100101 11111111 0100111101 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 851 |
Words | 161 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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