This is an analysis of Cradle Song by William Blake.
Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,
Dreaming in the joys of night;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeaa bbff
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11101 1000101 11011 1010111 11011 1010111 1011101 1010101 1110111 1100101 101111011 1110111 1010111 0110101 1110111 1010111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
sleep, thy