This is an analysis of Pains Of Sleep, The by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Ere on my bed my limbs I lay,
It hath not been my use to pray…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbbXcXXXXdd efeaggghhiihhejejkkXaaafkkeeeejcjcjjaaee
- Stanza lengths: 13,40,
- Metre: 11111111 01101101 01011101 11001101 11010101 01011111 010101010 11011110 100101000 011011110 11111110 101111001 01011101 11011101 01010100 11000101 01111101 01010101 10010001 11111101 100101000 11011101 010010101 11110101 010101001 11110101 10011011 11011111 10110110 11110111 11110101 1100111001 11110101 10110101 10110101 10010100 01111111 110100101 1000100111 11111001 11011101 11000101 11001101 01010101 11100001 001000101 01001101 01111111 11011101 1100100111 000100111 11111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 52
Repeated words/phrases
my, or, i
Anaphora
the
