This is an analysis of Sleep by Sir Philip Sidney.
Come Sleep; O Sleep! the certain knot of peace,
The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababXbabcdcdee
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111010101 0101010101 0111010001 101001010111 0101110101 0111011111 1101110101 1001010111 1101110101 0101011101 0101010101 1011110111 1111011101 10011110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
of, me, and
Anaphora
the, a
