This is an analysis of Sonnet Xi. To Sleep by Charlotte Smith.
COME, balmy Sleep! tired nature's soft resort!
On these sad temples all thy poppies shed;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgg
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 11011010101 1111011101 1111010101 1011011101 01011101010 1011010111 10111001010 0111111101 10010101001 1101011101 1111011111 1101110011 11110011101 010101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14