Analysis of On Your Midnight Pallet Lying



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On your midnight pallet lying,
Listen, and undo the door:
Lads that waste the light in sighing
In the dark should sigh no more;
Night should ease a lover's sorrow;
Therefore, since I go to-morrow,
Pity me before.

In the land to which I travel,
The far dwelling, let me say--
Once, if here the couch is gravel,
In a kinder bed I lay,
And the breast the darnel smothers
Rested once upon another's
When it was not clay.


Scheme XX ABABCCB DEDEFFE
Poetic Form
Metre 10101010011 111 1111010 1000101 11101010 0011111 11101010 1111110 10101 00111110 0110111 11101110 0010111 00101010 10101010 11111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 542
Words 95
Sentences 7
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 7, 7
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 137
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified by Anil433 on April 12, 2020

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Alfred Edward Housman

Alfred Edward Housman, usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.  more…

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