Analysis of The Magic Ring

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



Your touch on my hand is fire,
Your lips on my lips are flowers.
My darling, my one desire,
Dear crown of my days and hours.
Dear crown of each hour and day
Since ever my life began.
Ah! leave me--ah! go away -
We two are woman and man.

To lie in your arms and see
The stars melt into the sun;
Till there is no you and me,
Since you and I are one.
To loose my soul to your breath,
To bare my heart to your life -
It is death, it is death, it is death!
I am not your wife.

The hours will come and will go,
But never again such an hour
When the tides immortal flow
And life is a flood, a flower . . .
Wait for the ring; it is strong,
It has a magic of might
To make all that was splendid and wrong
Sordid and right.


Scheme ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IAIAJKJK
Poetic Form
Metre 11111110 11111110 11011010 11111010 11111001 1101101 1111101 1111001 1101101 0110101 1111101 110111 1111111 1111111 111111111 11111 01011011 110011110 1010101 01101010 1101111 1101011 111111001 1001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 698
Words 156
Sentences 14
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 176
Words per stanza (avg) 52
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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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