This is an analysis of A Child Asleep by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
How he sleepeth! having drunken
Weary childhood's mandragore,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXabb cdcXd aeaee XaXaa cfcff ghXih fefXe jkjkk hlhll khkhX gmgmm XhXii
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Metre: 11101010 1010100 00101110 1001111 1010101001110101 100101010 1010111 11101010 1001110 101110101010101 1010111110 0011101 10101010 1011001 1111001000011001 10101010 1011101 11101100 0010111 101100101001101 11101010 1100101 10111010 0010101 101110101010101 10101010 1010101 10101010 1010111 101010111010001 10101001 111001 10101111 1110101 111010011011001 10001010 1010111 01101010 0010101 101110101011101 10101110 111111 11101010 1010001 1110101000101111 11101010 1110101 10111010 1010111 001001101010100 11111010 1010001 11111010 1010101 111110101011011 10101110 1110111 00101010 1010001 11111011011101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 60
Repeated words/phrases
as, around, it, in, ye
Anaphora
as, to, now