This is an analysis of The Point Of View: Ii by Edith Nesbit.

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In the wood of lost causes, the valley of tears,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a babaccXX X acXcbbXX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,8,1,8,
  • Metre: 1 001011001001 11111101001 11011101101 101001011001 111001001001 011111101001 111111110100 11101011001 1 111011111111 001001101101 11001011111 101001011001 111001101011 011111111001 010111010110 11101001001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

of, night, it, and