This is an analysis of The Prodigal Son by Edith Nesbit.
COME home, come home, for your eyes are sore
With the glare of the noonday sun,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ebeb dada fgfg
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 111111111 00100101 110110001 10100101 1111111011 11101111 111101011 11110101 110101011 0110101 1100100101 00111101 011100101 1110101 1110111001 10110101 0100101101 01101101 10101001001 1011101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
your, and, you, in
Anaphora
and, you, in
