This is an analysis of His Wife And Baby by Isabella Valancy Crawford.

In the lone place of the leaves,
Where they touch the hanging eaves,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabccbddXeeX aabffXXaabccb
  • Stanza lengths: 12,13,
  • Metre: 0011001 1110101 110101011101110 1010001 1010001 110101010111010 111101 011001 010111001111010 110101 1011111 110111010101110 110101 111101 111001010111010 110111 110111 111101111101110 111101 0011001 110110011101010 110101 010101 110110011101010
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

as, her

Anaphora

the, she