This is an analysis of La Derniere Robe De Soi by Edith Nesbit.

OH, silken gown, all pink and pretty,
Bought, quite a bargain, in the City,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff gggg hhaa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 110111110 110100010 111111111 110111011 111101010 111111110 110100110 110100010 111101110 111111110 111101010 110101010 111111011 111101111 110111111 111101111 110111110 111111010 111111010 111111110
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

it, you, i

Epiphora

me, it, you

Anadiplosis

you