This is an analysis of The City Mouse And The Garden Mouse by Christina Georgina Rossetti.

The city mouse lives in a house; -
The garden mouse lives in a bower,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcb cdad
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 01011001 010110010 11000111 110101010 01011111 01011111 10111111 11010101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

in

Anaphora

the