This is an analysis of When The Sleepy Man Comes by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts.
When the Sleepy Man comes with the dust on his eyes,
(Oh, weary, my Dearie, so weary!)…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aBaX cBcX cBcX aBaX cBcX bBbX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 101011001101 11011110 11101111001 11011011 11101011101 11011110 01111111111 11011011 11001001011 11011110 1010010101111 11011011 11001001001 11011110 11001111001 11011011 101001001001 11011110 11101011011 11011011 111010010110 11011110 010110110010 11011011
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
weary, he
