This is an analysis of Day Is Dead, And Let Us Sleep by Augusta Davies Webster.
DAY is dead, and let us sleep,
Sleep a while or sleep for aye,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXcabdddc
- Stanza lengths: 10,
- Metre: 1011111 1011111 1010110 1010111 0111101 10101 1010101 1010110 1010001 1000101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 10
Repeated words/phrases
sleep
Anaphora
joy
Anadiplosis
sleep
