This is an analysis of Lullaby by Horace Smith.
Sleep, little baby, sleep, love, sleep!
Evening is coming, and night is nigh;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AbXbA AbabA AbXbA
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,
- Metre: 11010111 100101101 1001001011 10010111 110101 11010111 100100101 1101001011 10011101 110101 11010111 1101011001 1001001011 10010111 110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 15
Repeated words/phrases
sleep
Anaphora
sleep
Epiphora
sleep
Anadiplosis
sleep
