This is an analysis of Prayer In Time Of War by Edith Nesbit.
Now Death is near, and very near,
In this wild whirl of horror and fear,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcC ddeecC ffggcC hhcccC
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 11011101 001101011 11010011 10110101 11111101 11011101 11011101 11110111 010111110 100111010 101111101 11011101 11111101 11100110 11111111 11110101 111101101 11011101 1001001001 11010101 11011110 01110001 10111101 11011101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
of, to, our, life
