Analysis of Lassitude
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
I laid me down beside the sea,
Endless in blue monotony;
The clouds were anchored in the sky.
Sometimes a sail went idling by.
Upon the shingles on the beach
Grey linen was spread out to bleach,
And gently with a gentle swell
The languid ripples rose and fell.
A fisher-boy, in level line,
Cast stone by stone into the brine:
Methought I too might do as he,
And cast my sorrows on the sea.
The old, old sorrows in a heap
Dropped heavily into the deep;
But with its sorrow on that day
My heart itself was cast away.
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEAA FFGG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11110101 10010100 01010001 010111001 01010101 11011111 01010101 01010101 01010101 11110101 1111111 01110101 01110001 11000101 11110111 11011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 522 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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