Analysis of The Nest
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
That was the skylark we heard
Singing so high,
The little quivering bird
We saw, and the sky.
The earth was drenched with sun,
The sky was drenched with song;
We lay in the grass and listened,
Long and long and long.
I said, 'What a spell it is
Has made her rise
To pour out her world of bliss
In that world of skies!'
You said, 'What a spell must pass
Between sky and plain,
Since she finds in this world of grass
Her nest again!'
Scheme | ABABXCXC XDXDEXEX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111 1011 0101001 11001 011111 011111 11001010 10101 1110111 1101 1110111 01111 1110111 01101 11101111 0101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 424 |
Words | 91 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 165 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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