This is an analysis of The Magic Ring by Edith Nesbit.

Your touch on my hand is fire,
Your lips on my lips are flowers.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd cdcdefef gagahihi
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
  • Metre: 11111010 11111110 11011010 11011110 11011011 1101101 1111101 1111011 0101111 0110001 1101111 111111 0111011 0111011 001001001 11111 01001101 110011110 1010101 11001010 1101001 0101001 011111011 1011
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

my, and, to, your, it, death

Anaphora

your, dear, to