This is an analysis of The Appeal by Edith Nesbit.

ALL summer-time you said:
'Love has no need of shelter nor of kindness,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbX acXa aXcX aaaX adda
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 110111 11110101010 110101101010 1110010111 100111 11110101011 11010100011 1111110101 100111 11010101010 11010100010 1101001000 110111 10011101010 10111101010 11001111000 111111 11101110110 11111111110 1111110111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

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