This is an analysis of Love Well The Hour by Edith Nesbit.

HEART of my heart, my life and light,
If you were lost what should I do?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab acac dede efef
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 10111111 01011111 11111011 11110101 11010101 01111111 10111100 11111111 11110111 101111010 11110101 111101010 111111110 11010110 0111110110 11111011
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 19

Repeated words/phrases

my, you, and