This is an analysis of The Spider Queen by Edith Nesbit.
IN the deep heart of furthest fairyland
Where foot of man has never trodden yet…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd dede fXfg cccc dddd baba da da bgbg dede hihi
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,2,4,4,4,
- Metre: 0011010101 1101110101 00101000101 1101010011 1111001101 1101001011 0101111101 11011100101 0100110101 110011101011 1111010101 1011011101 1101100111 0101011110 1101110101 1101011100 11011000011 1011100111 1001010101 110010011001 1101010111 0100010111 11111101010 11001110111 01010111001 0101011101 0101010111 0111010101 0101000101 1111111101 010100101001 11110011001 1001001111 10110111010 1011110111 01010101110 1101011100 1100011100 0101001101 1111000101 011110010011 0111011111 1000010101 1101110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 55
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, her, with
Anaphora
her
