This is an analysis of Egypt by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

Fantastic sleep is busy with my eyes;
I seem in some waste solitude to stand…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacccdcd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0101010011 1101110101 110101101 011000101 1011010100 0111110001 0101010101 01001011101 111101111 11011100101 1111010111 01001110101 111011100101 01001001101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14