This is an analysis of The Death Of Agnes by Edith Nesbit.

Now that the sunlight dies in my eyes,
And the moonlight grows in my hair,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ededfdfd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,
  • Metre: 110111011 10111011 11110101 101101 10110111 111101 111101011 101101 100111111 101111 11110111 111011 011111101 0101001 11100111 1111011
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 16

Anaphora

nothing