Analysis of On Your Midnight Pallet Lying
Alfred Edward Housman 1859 – 1936
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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 |
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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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