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

There is a garden made for our delight,
Where all the dreams we dare not dream come true.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcabc defdef XgaXga
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,
  • Metre: 1001011101 1101111111 1101111101 1111000101 1101010011 1111110101 0101011111 1101110101 01011111001 0111111101 0101011101 1111011111 1101010111 0101110111 10010101001 1101111110 1101111111 1101100111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

that, there

Anaphora

the, o

Anadiplosis

there