This is an analysis of The Careless Word by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton.
A WORD is ringing thro' my brain,
It was not meant to give me pain;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eedddddd aaaaffdd ddgghhdd ffiiXhdd aabbbXdd ggjjbXdd
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 01010111 01110111 01110101 11011101 01110111 10110101 01110111 01010101 11101111 01010101 11110111 00111101 10001101 010101101 10111101 11011111 10010111 11110101 11111111 01011101 11011111 010101101 11011111 01110101 11110101 01110111 101100111 01011011 01010101 11011101 01111001 11110101 01100101 01010100 01010101 11111101 11110110 010110111 11011111 11010101 01010101 01111101 10111111 01010111 10110101 10010110 11011111 01110101 11110101 11110011 11010111 11111101 110100111 11111100 11011111 11010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 56
Repeated words/phrases
it, in
Anaphora
it
