This is an analysis of Second Nature by Edith Nesbit.
WHEN I was young how fair the skies,
Such folly of cloud, such blue depths wise,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeeff aaccff aaccffXbbbbee
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,13,
- Metre: 11111101 110011111 11011101 110011001 11010111 11010001 11010111 11011001 11010111 11011111 11010111 10010111 01111101 11001001 11011101 10111101 10111001 10110111 10011111 11111001 11010111 11110011 11110101 111100101 11111001 011100111 10110001 01011101 11101101 01111111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
such, of, and
Anaphora
such, and