This is an analysis of Sleeping At Last by Christina Georgina Rossetti.

Sleeping at last, the trouble and tumult over,
Sleeping at last, the struggle and horror past,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abaB babXabaB
  • Stanza lengths: 4,8,
  • Metre: 101101011010 10110101101 111101011010 1011 110101111101 111111101110 10110010111 101101011010 10101100101 100101101010 1011
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 11

Repeated words/phrases

and, sleeping, last, of, at

Anaphora

sleeping, no

Anadiplosis

fast