This is an analysis of The Jilted Lover To His Mother by Edith Nesbit.
You needn't pray for me, old lady, I don't want no one's prayer,
I'm fit and jolly as ever I was--you needn't think I care.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb cccc ddee ffccgg
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,6,
- Metre: 110111110111111 0111011011110111 111101011011010 1101010000101010 011010101110101 11011100111111 011101111101111 01101111101111 10110111111101 01111100111011 111101011111111 111110111011101011 11010100110111 110101011010111 110101001110111 11111111011111 11010110111111100 101101010111110100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
i, needn't, i'm, that, her, she, to
Epiphora
me, them
