This is an analysis of Villeggiature by Edith Nesbit.

My window, framed in pear-tree bloom,
White-curtained shone, and softly lighted:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cccc dedeXbcbc
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,9,
  • Metre: 11010111 1100111010 11011011 111111010 11011101 101111011 11110101 110101111 11011101 011111011 11001101 110110111 11110111 110111011 10111111 010111111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

and, i, you

Anaphora

your, and