This is an analysis of The Golden Rose by Edith Nesbit.
A POOR lost princess, weary and worn,
Came over the down by the wind-washed moor,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab acac cdcd efef agag
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 011101011 1100110111 1011110101 1110010101 110111001 100110111 0010100101 1011101001 1010100111 1011101101 11101101001 111100101 111100101 110101101 100100101 1110101001 11111111 1101100101 11100110111 0010110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
and, her, his, gold
Anaphora
and
