This is an analysis of To A Child by Edith Nesbit.

(Rosamund.)
The fairies have been busy while you slept;…

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Structure

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  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 49

Repeated words/phrases

have, red, she, white, and, your

Anaphora

they, she, the