This is an analysis of The Home-Coming by Edith Nesbit.

This was our house. To this we came
Lighted by love with torch aflame,…

Read full poem

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff ggbb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 01110011 10110101 10010111 11101111 01110011 01111111 11011101 10111101 11011101 01010101 01010101 11111101 11010101 10111101 11011001 11111011
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

this, still

Anaphora

you, the