This is an analysis of Ere Sleep Comes Down To Soothe The Weary Eyes by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
ERE sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes,
Which all the day with ceaseless care have sought…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababacacAAcacacXcAAdadacacAAeafagagAAhahacacAAdadafaeA
- Stanza lengths: 54,
- Metre: 1111010101 1101010111 0101100101 1111011101 1101010101 0111001101 1111011111 1101110101 1111010101 1111010101 11011100111 1111010101 0111010101 0111010101 0111010101 1111111100 11011101001 1111010101 1111010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101011111 1101101001 1101010101 1101010001 1111010101 1111010101 1101010111 1111110101 1011010100 0101000101 11010001001 1101010111 1100010100 1111010101 1111010101 1100011101 0101110111 1101010101 1101110111 0100010011 11000010101 0111010101 1111010101 1111010101 0111110101 1111010101 1101110001 1111110111 11011010100 1111110101 1111110101 1111010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 54
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, comes, to, sleep
Anaphora
ere, what, or
Epiphora
eyes
