Analysis of Before the Sun Rises
John Townsend 1945 (Loughborough)
Why do I wake
before the Sun rises
feel so tired
yet restless inside
unable to close my eyes
sleep through the night.
Sometimes it is
like a game I am sure
my mind playing tricks
rattling my cage
waking me up
'Come on you fool
to get up.'
Yet everyone sleeps
so I mock these tiresome thoughts
write as I think
challenge my mind
as giving this nonsense
a reply,
yet why?
I am tired
want to sleep
to hell with this night shift
of no sleep.
Oh look the halo of the Sun
fractures the night
maybe I will rest
at full sunlight.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLKMNOPQRRCSTSUFVF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 010110 1110 11001 0101111 1101 0111 101111 11101 1011 1011 1111 111 1101 11111001 1111 1011 110110 001 11 1110 111 111111 111 11010101 1001 10111 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 494 |
| Words | 106 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 28 |
| Lines Amount | 28 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 409 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
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