This is an analysis of As It Is by Edith Nesbit.

If you and I
Had wings to fly -…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabccb bbdXXd eeaffa
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,
  • Metre: 0111 1101 111101 1111 0101 010101 1111 1101 011001 11000 1101 101101 11111 01011 010111 11001 00101 111101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

wings

Anaphora

and

Epiphora

not