This is an analysis of The Goose-Girl by Edith Nesbit.
I WANDERED lonely by the sea,
As is my daily use,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc bded fXfX ddddeXbX
- Stanza lengths: 8,4,4,8,
- Metre: 11010101 101101 11010101 010101 01010111 1101010 01010111 1001110 11011101 010101 11110111 111011 11010001 110101 10111101 011101 11110101 111101 11110111 100101 111101001 110101 10010111 010111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 27
Repeated words/phrases
gray, and
Anaphora
the
Epiphora
goose
Anadiplosis
there
