This is an analysis of In Hospital by Edith Nesbit.

Under the shadow of a hawthorn brake,
Where bluebells draw the sky down to the wood,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababccdd efefbbgg
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,
  • Metre: 1001100111 1111011001 1111011001 11010010101 0111110101 01010001001 1111111111 11111011101 1001010101 1101001111 1111111101 1101111101 1001010101 01010100101 11110010101 1001100101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

and, of

Anaphora

where