This is an analysis of The Maiden's Prayer by Edith Nesbit.
SPRING, pretty Spring, what treasure do you bring to me?
Green grass and buttercups, cherry-bloom and may?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaa abab acac
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
- Metre: 01100111011101 11110110111 110010111010101 11011010111 01100111001111 1010101101010 111010111010111 111111100010 01100111010101 11101011101 111011111110101 11010111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
to, me, and, of, you
Anaphora
you
