This is an analysis of The Better Part by Edith Nesbit.
THERE'S a grey old church on a wind-swept hill
Where three bent yew trees cower,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ededfafa
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,
- Metre: 1011110111 1111110 01010111 101111110 0111001101 11101001 110101111 00101101 0010110100 0011111 0010110111 01101001 010101111 11100110 10101101001 11100111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 17
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
the
