This is an analysis of At Evening Time There Shall Be Light by Edith Nesbit.
THE day was wild with wind and rain,
One grey wrapped sky and sea and shore,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd eaeafdfd Xaeaefdfd
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,9,
- Metre: 01110111 11111111 011111001 10111101 01011111 1100110101 11011101 11011101 11010001 01011011 11011001 11010101 11010101 11010101 11111001 111101001 11111111 01010011 01010101 110011111 00111101 011000111 010011101 11010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 26
Repeated words/phrases
and, he, to
Anaphora
he, in
