The poems To Sleep by John Keats and The Pains of Sleep by Samuel Taylor Coleridge appear to discuss the joy and agony of sleeping; however, the poem reveals a deeper meaning than just sleep through insight into events in the lives of individual poets. Poetry is unique, each reader may have a different interpretation than the previous reader and there is no correct reading of a poem. The interpretation of the following poem begins by talking about sleep; however, with evidence, this reading will reveal a more substantial meaning that is strongly related to the life of the poet in question. John Keats liked to play with many styles of poetry; for example, in To Sleep he uses the sonnet form (Behrens Len 530). Using the English sonnet as a model, Keats writes To Sleep (Motion 126). The poem uses fourteen lines; each line includes ten syllables. Included within the verses lies an unaccented rhyme scheme; or, more aptly called, iambic pentameter. Also typical of the English sonnet is the creation of three quatrains (each quatrain includes four lines) which end with a rhyming couplet. Traditionally, the rhyme scheme of an English sonnet is abab, cdcd, efef, gg; instead, Keats creates a modification of this model using abab, cdcd, bc, fefe instead. For the poem to remain in sonnet form, it must include the physical aspect of a sonnet and describe a conflict within its quatrains; the final lines should resolve the conflict within the final couplet. Each quatrain of Keats's poem discusses the different ways in which the speaker desired sleep (or death, which we will discuss later) or ways in which to coax his body into sleep. Keats ends To Sleep in an unrhymed couplet, this not me...... middle of paper ......, Lawrence and Len Rosen. Writing and readings in the curriculum.11th. Longman Pub Group, 2010. Print.Bloom, Harold. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 2. NY, New York: Chelsea House Pub, 2010.Print.OED. cashed, adj.Second edition, 1989; online version September 2011.; accessed 19 November 2011. Previous version first published in the New English Dictionary, 1891.OED. enshade, see Second edition, 1989; online version September 2011.; accessed 19 November 2011. Previous version first published in New English Dictionary, 1891.Motion, Andrew. Keats. University Of Chicago Press, 2000. Print.Shakespeare, William. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. 2. Harvard University, Digitized2006. eBooks.