Analysis of Invocation II

Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)



COME to-night in a dream to-night,
Come as you used to do,
Come in the gown, in the gown of white,
Come in the ribbon of blue;
Come in the virgin's colours you wear,
Come through the dark and the dew,
Come with the scent of the night in your hair,
Come as you used to do.

Blue and white of your eyes and your face,
White of your gown and blue,
Will you not come from the happy place,
Come as you used to do?
Tears so many, so many tears
Where there were once so few--
Can they not wash the gray of the years
From the white of your gown and blue?


Scheme aBabcbcB dbdBxbxb
Poetic Form
Metre 11100111 111111 100100111 1001011 10010111 1101001 1101101011 111111 101111011 111101 111110101 111111 11101101 110111 111101101 10111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 538
Words 117
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 8
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 206
Words per stanza (avg) 58
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Edith Nesbit

Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland) was an English author and poet; she published her books for children under the name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on more than 60 books of children's literature. She was also a political activist and co-founded the Fabian Society, a socialist organisation later affiliated to the Labour Party. more…

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