This is an analysis of Sleep by George MacDonald.
Oh! is it Death that comes
To have a foretaste of the whole?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaab ccddc Xaeea fcaac ageeg ehiih jeiie fkaak jcllc
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Metre: 100111 01001001 01010101 01011101 10110111 111111 11110101 11000101 01011101 11010101 101111 01010101 11010011 11010011 11011101 111101 11110111 01010101 11011101 011101011 110101 11101101 110100101 11010101 11110111 110111 01010101 11010101 01110101 111101001 1011100 01001111 111101001 11111111 11010101 110101 11110101 11010101 11010111 01000101 110100 11101101 01010101 01010001 11110111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 45
Repeated words/phrases
and, with
Anaphora
to, through, my