This is an analysis of Lioness Asleep by Babette Deutsch.
Content that now the bleeding bone be swept
Out of her reach, she lay upon her side.…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efbefb
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 1011010101 1001110101 0011111111 1101110101 1001110111 0101010111 0101110100 101010101 0111010101 1001011101 1111010101 1001011011 01010010111 0101010011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
she, slept
