This is an analysis of By Night When Others Soundly Slept by Anne Bradstreet.
. By night when others soundly slept
And hath at once both ease and Rest,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbd efef Xbdbc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,5,
- Metre: 11110101 11111111 11010101 11011101 11111101 01111100 11011001 01101111 11011100 10010111 11011001 11011111 10110111 11011011 11111111 11100100
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 19
Repeated words/phrases
and, my
