This is an analysis of To Sleep by John Keats.

O SOFT embalmer of the still midnight!
Shutting, with careful fingers and benign,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcccbccdcd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1110000111 1001010101 11111000001 1000100001 1101010111 0100111101 1100111101 0111010100 111101101 0111010101 11010010111 01110100101 101100011 110110011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14