This is an analysis of Cradle Song by Thomas Dekker.

Golden slumbers kiss your eyes,
Smiles awake you when you rise ;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaBCCddBCC
  • Stanza lengths: 10,
  • Metre: 1010111 1011111 11010111 11010101 1010101 10101111 11111111 11010111 11010101 1010101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 10

Repeated words/phrases

you, care

Epiphora

lullaby, you

Anadiplosis

you