This is an analysis of Dear Love, Good-Night by Augusta Davies Webster.

DEAR love, good-night. And, tender sleep
,Seal up her lids like these drowsed flowers,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXabb cdeced
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,
  • Metre: 11011101 1101111010 01111110 01010111 11011001 11110 11110101 11111111 11011011 11110111 11000101 1101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 12

Anaphora

sleep