This is an analysis of Sleep-Stealer by Rabindranath Tagore.
Who stole sleep from baby's eyes? I must know.
Clasping her pitcher to her waist mother went to fetch water…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AbcdXdcXefcbghfhiXjXjXbXAbdfiejgXXXX
- Stanza lengths: 36,
- Metre: 1110101111 100100011010110 001011 01101010110010 01010 0101101100110010 1 0111110011010 1 0011011011101 0101101 1101111101000110 111 11101101111111 01101 1110011111101 101100101 111001010001011 1010110110101000 100101 00101010001001000 011011011011101 10010111010001110110 100 1110101111 1011000100111010 11101111111010 1 11100111001 111011010101010 01011101110001010 1011010 1010001000101010 1010110110110 1001010 10101110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
i, must, in, her, and
Anaphora
the, i
