This is an analysis of The Innocence Of Any Flesh Sleeping by Brian Patten.
Sleeping beside you I dreamt
I woke beside you;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xaab cdd efebgX eeef egXeXcf bXc
- Stanza lengths: 4,3,6,4,7,3,
- Metre: 1001111 11011 10011 111110 1110101110 11 0010 0110011010 0010 10 0100010110 11000 1010010 011 0110 01110 1101110 011010 1101 11001101 1011110 101 111 11010 100101110 100110 11111010
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 27
Repeated words/phrases
i, beside, you
Epiphora
you
Anadiplosis
dreaming
