This is an analysis of Cradle Song by Thomas Dekker.
Golden slumbers kiss your eyes,
Smiles awake you when you rise ;…
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