This is an analysis of The Eternal by Edith Nesbit.

Your dear desired grace,
Your hands, your lips of red,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababb cdcdd edeXd dfddXf
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,6,
  • Metre: 110101 111101 01001011 01111101 1111 11001 100101 11011101 01011111 0011 11001 001101 11010101 01010100 1101 1101011 0001001 11111001 01110100 11101100 1111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 21

Repeated words/phrases

your

Anaphora

your