This is an analysis of Sleep by Walter de la Mare.
When all, and birds, and creeping beasts,
When the dark of night is deep,…
Browse poems by Walter de la Mare
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXb cada XXdX ccXc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11111101 1010101 001010011 010101 01011111 010101 101100101 110100 01010001 110111 01010101 1100100 11110101 100101 110010101 110101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Anaphora
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