This is an analysis of Sleep! Sleep! Beauty Bright by William Blake.

Sleep! sleep! beauty bright,
Dreaming o'er the joys of night;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeaa bbff ggdX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11101 10100101 11011 1010111 11011 1010111 1011101 1010101 1110111 1100101 101111011 1110111 1010111 0110101 1110111 1010101 0111011 10010101 1011101 101101100
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

sleep, thy, and