This is an analysis of A Life's Story by Edith Nesbit.
THE morning broke in a pearly haze,
Then the east grew duskly red:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd dXdX eded fgfa eceX hhhh bdbX gigi cdcd Xhchc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Metre: 010100101 1011101 1110111101 01101011 1011100101 0111101 1011101111 10100111 01101101001 01101110 1111111111 00111101 01100101011 1111111 110100111 0101111 011110101 1100101 110110111 11111100 0100111101 101001000 110111101 1110101 1010101101 1111101 1100101011 1111101 010110101 1100111 1110100111 1110101 1011110111 1110111 1101100111 11111011 011110111 1111111 0111110111 11111101 01111000101 101001001 1100111101 111110111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 54
Repeated words/phrases
day, that, and
Anaphora
perhaps, and