This is an analysis of My Loss by Augusta Davies Webster.

IN the world was one green nook I knew,
Full of roses, roses red and white,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abaabb bcbbcc adaadd edeedd
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,
  • Metre: 001111111 101010111 101010101 1010101001 111010101 11101 100000111 100101111 1110101001 101000101 1011100011 11101 0010100111 1000011101 1010010001 111011101 1000111101 11101 111011111 111011111 1001111101 1001110101 101010101 11101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

roses, in, my

Anaphora

roses, wherefore

Epiphora

delight, nook, there, before