This is an analysis of Now I Lay Me by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
When I pass from earth away,
Palsied though I be and gray,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbaa X cc X dd X ee X aaeeff
- Stanza lengths: 6,1,2,1,2,1,2,1,6,
- Metre: 1110101 1011011 1110111 11101001 1111101 1111101 1111101 1000101 1010101 11011101 0110111 0010001 111101110 1000101 1010001 110111010 0010111 1000100 1010111 1101101 1110101 1111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 22
Repeated words/phrases
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