This is an analysis of The Poor Man's Guest by Edith Nesbit.
ONE came to me in royal guise
With banners flying fair and free…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dede fdfd aXaX bgbg
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11010101 01010111 11011111 11010101 111111010 010100111 110111110 11110101 11010011 01010101 11011100 11110111 11111111 11101101 11111111 11011011 110100101 11011101 11101101 11111111 11111111 110111100 11011101 010010111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
to, i, my, him, in, but
Anaphora
i, but, and
