This is an analysis of Sleep Of A University by Francis Scott Fitzgerald.
WATCHING through the long, dim hours
Like statued Mithras, stand ironic towers;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc XXaaddee ffaa
- Stanza lengths: 6,8,4,
- Metre: 10101110 11010101010 11010111 1101110011 11010011 10110010111 0101010101 100101000111 1001010101 101100100101 11010101 1110010101 01110101 10011100101 01111101 01010001001 110101010 110101001010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 18
