This is an analysis of Mother Song by Edith Nesbit.

_From the Portuguese._
HEAVY my heart is, heavy to carry,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a bXccXaXcddaDdbdXDdaada
  • Stanza lengths: 1,22,
  • Metre: 00101 1011010010 10110010100 101010101 1011101 101101100101 101010101 11111111110 01111 11101 100100111 11111101 1101011 11111111 1101111110 1111011 1111011 1101011 11011 1111101001 011100111 10111101011 011011101011
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 23

Repeated words/phrases

of, and, folds, more, so, soft, heart

Anaphora

and, nor, you

Epiphora

love, heart