This is an analysis of To A Sleeping Maid by Dora Sigerson Shorter.
Oh! do not rudely wake her, nor reproach
Those pulsing limbs for this hostility…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbXbXccc
- Stanza lengths: 12,
- Metre: 1111010101 1101100100 0101110111 1111010100 1101011101 11010010101 1101110101 0101010111 1100011101 0011110001 1101000101 1101011110
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 12
