This is an analysis of The Enchanted Garden by Edith Nesbit.

OH, what a garden it was, living gold, living green,
Full of enchantments like spices embalming the air,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXaX abab cdcd
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1101001101101 1010011001001 1111111011001 11110110111010 1011011011001 1001111001001 1111111011111 1101001011011 1101000111111 1001011001001 1011011001001 1101001011000
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

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