This is an analysis of The Star by Edith Nesbit.
I HAD a star to sing by, a beautiful star that led,
But when I sang of its splendour the world in its wisdom said:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbX ddeXcceXXaabb
- Stanza lengths: 8,13,
- Metre: 11010110100111 111100100100101 11111010110101 111110000101001 1111110111101 101011011101111 10111010101101 1101111101111001 111111111100111 0100111001100111 1011100101111101 101001101111011110 1110011111100111 111110101101001 1011110111100111 100101111101001 1111111001111011 10101011111101 0010101111111111 11101101101111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
but, of, your, and, i, my, star
Anaphora
i
