This is an analysis of New College Gardens, Oxford by Edith Nesbit.

ON this old lawn, where lost hours pass
Across the shadows dark with dew,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd eeee dcdc fafeebeb
  • Stanza lengths: 8,4,4,8,
  • Metre: 101111101 01011101 11010111 11010111 10110101 11000101 100111001 110101 001000101 010001010 10110101 11010011 01110111 110010111 11110101 110101 11101111 01111111 110101001 01110001 100010101 11011101 01000101 111101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 27

Repeated words/phrases

of

Anaphora

the

Epiphora

rose