This is an analysis of From The Italian by Edith Nesbit.

AS a little child whom his mother has chidden,
Wrecked in the dark in a storm of weeping,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa babX cdcd
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 101011010110 1001001010 100111110 1011110010 1011111110 1111101110 01011001110 101011110 1111111111 1001010110 1011111111 1111001010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

in, his, him, their