This is an analysis of From The Portuguese by Edith Nesbit.
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When I lived in the village of youth…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a BccXdecf BfgdXFD XcfhXci bgdFD cjkegchX X ddhjhjX hfaegXef kekfihgcah hahdlhcamXXkifbfahXiX filhmekXfif
- Stanza lengths: 1,8,7,7,5,8,1,7,8,10,21,11,
- Metre: 1 111001001 101001010 10001010 1101011 011111110 10110010 1001010 100101 111001001 01101110 110110010 10110110 01110110 011011011 0110110 11100101 11110110 11101110 11110111 11011010 11001110 0101101 11001001 1111110 1001110 011011011 0110110 111111 11000110 11011010 1011001 011111110 10111110 101101011 0101101 1 11010110 111010010 1001011 101010001 10010010 010000100 1000100 0111011 100100110 1011011 101011 101110 1111010 1001111 1001 1101111 1001110 1111111 11101111 11110011 110111 11010110 11001010 11101 0100001 111111 1111111 01010001 1101010 111011110 1111110 1111111 1111010 1101011 1011111 1111001 110101 1100111 11010110 11001001 1010010111 111101011 11111100 1111011 1111110 10110101 111101 1111101 111111 11011011 0111101 11110 111011111 111111 11101111 101111 0110111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 94
Repeated words/phrases
in, of, new, no, them, my, loved, he, all, she, and, too, him
Anaphora
the, and, i
Anadiplosis
laughing
