This is an analysis of In The Enchanted Tower by Edith Nesbit.

THE waves in thunderous menace break
Upon the rocks below my tower,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abba cccc cddc effe
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 010100101 010101110 110101110 11010111 11110101 01010111 11011111 01011101 11100101 01011111 01110111 01111101 111100111 11111101 110111101 11111101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 17

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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