This is an analysis of The Old Dispensation by Edith Nesbit.
O THOU, who, high in heaven,
To man hast given…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd aaddeeff eeffggff
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
- Metre: 1111010 01110 010101 1111 1001110 11010 101111 110100 11110110 01110 110111 0111 1100111 0100 111101 111101 111101 0101 111101 1011 111111 0101 111011 110101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
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