Analysis of The Watch
Frances Darwin Cornford 1886 (Cambridge) – 1960 (Cambridge)
I wakened on my hot, hard bed;
Upon the pillow lay my head;
Beneath the pillow I could hear
My little watch was ticking clear.
I thought the throbbing of it went
Like my continual discontent,
I thought it said in every tick:
I am so sick, so sick, so sick;
O death, come quick, come quick, come quick,
Come quick, come quick, come quick, come quick.
| Scheme | AABCDDEEEE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (40%) Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 1111111 01010111 01010111 11011101 11010111 110100001 111101001 11111111 11111111 11111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 365 |
| Words | 76 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 266 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 67 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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