This is an analysis of For The New Year by Edith Nesbit.
FLUSHED with a crimson sunrise beauty,
The fair new year its promise gave;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdXd efeffgfg hdhdicic hjhjfjfj ahahXgig
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 100101110 01110101 111101010 01010101 1111011010 11011101 110111100 0101 110101010 111101001 110100110 11010101 110111110 01000101 010101010 1101 010101011 01011111 110101011 10001011 010111110 11010101 110111010 1111 110101111 11011001 011101111 11011101 111110010 11111001 110111010 1110 011101110 01110101 0110101110 00011100 010101100 11010101 111001110 0111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
of, how, we, them, old
Anaphora
some, for, we, the
