This is an analysis of To Vera, Who Asked A Song by Edith Nesbit.

IF I only had time!
I could make you a rhyme.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcddddc eeffbddddb
  • Stanza lengths: 10,10,
  • Metre: 011011 111101 1110110 110110 11011011 011110 110110 110110 110110 10011001 11111 111001 1011010 111110 11011011 1011001 111010 010000 011110 11101011
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

and, it

Anaphora

that

Epiphora

it