This is an analysis of Waking In The Blue by Robert Lowell.
The night attendant, a B.U. sophomore,
rouses from the mare's-nest of his drowsy head…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXbcbXdeX XfgefaeXhXibeefXXXXeif h cdedbX ifgXfbffifb
- Stanza lengths: 10,22,1,6,11,
- Metre: 010100111 10001100101 111100100 11011100 101 1110111010 1101010111 101111 11001010101 000110100010 11011010 11110110010 10101010011 010100 110010010010 111011 0010001 0011 1010000010010 0101011001011 11111 11100010 0101101101 11101101 0001110101101 01011111000 1001 01000101 0101 100110101011 111000100111 11011 101001000101011 00101001 1011011100111 110110010010010 001010010 111110 1000101 1001011010 111101 0101001 110110111010 010101010 11010101010 001010010 011011010 1111111 111110 10110110
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 50