This is an analysis of A Kentish Garden by Edith Nesbit.

THERE is a grey-walled garden, far away
From noise and smoke of cities, where the hours…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abba bccb cddc ceec cbbc fggf ghhg
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1001110101 01110101010 10110101010 11010101001 1111010101 1101011101 1101111100 1011000101 1101110101 0111110001 1101111111 0111010001 1001000101 0111010101 1011010101 1101000111 1111110111 0111011011 1011100101 1111101101 1111111100 0111110101 0100010101 010000101001 1101010111 1011010111 01110101001 010111001001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 34

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

there, the