This is an analysis of Sleep by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
When to oft sleep we give ourselves away,
And in a dream as in a fairy bark…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdecde
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1011110101 1001100101 1111100101 0101110111 0111011111 1111001001 11010110111 0111010101 1101111111 0101111101 0101111101 1011011101 1101000111 1000111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Anaphora
to, the
