This is an analysis of Day And Night by Edith Nesbit.
NIGHT, ambushed in the darkling wood,
Waited to seize the sleeping field,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaaabab cdcdcece
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,
- Metre: 11100101 10010101 01000111 10110101 11011111 10011100 01010101 11110111 11111101 01011100 01110101 11100100 11110111 11111111 11011101 11111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 17
