This is an analysis of The Heart Of Joy by Edith Nesbit.
DEAR, do you sigh that your love may not stay with you,
Laugh with and play with you,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaabba aaaa cca dddaeea
- Stanza lengths: 7,4,3,7,
- Metre: 111111111101 101101 101101 1011 11110110111 11011011111 1111 100111101111 111111 111111 1101 11011011111 11110110111 1011 111110111111 111111 101111 1111 11110011011 11011111111 1101111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
with, you, for, and, us
Epiphora
you, me, for, us, love
Anadiplosis
you
