This is an analysis of To Sleep by Lord Alfred Douglas.
Ah, Sleep, to me thou com'st not in the guise
Of one who brings good gifts to weary men,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaXbba cXdcXd
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 1101111001 0111010101 1111110100 0011110111 1101001110 0111111111 11110010100 0111011011 1101010101 111101001000 1011111101 0101101101 1111011000 10111111001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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