This is an analysis of Black Kate by Henry Kendall.
KATE, they say, is seventeen—
Do not count her sweet, you know.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefeffdfd dgdghihi jbjbklkl imimbhbh XhnhXdbd hahahaha dadanmnmXdhdhnknk
- Stanza lengths: 16,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Metre: 1110101 1110111 1001101 1011111 1000101 1110111 1010111 110111 1010101 1000101 1110001 1010101 11000101 1010111 1000100 1111111 10101001 0110100 10101001 1011100 1010101 10011111 101111 1011111 1111101 1000111 1011101 1010111 1010101 1011111 1010101 1010111 1010101 1111100 1010111 1010100 1110111 0111101 1010111 1010101 1111101 1000101 1010101 0011101 1011101 1110111 1010101 1010111 1010101 1010101 1010101 1011101 1011101 1110101 1011111 1110101 10101001 1000101 1011101 1010101 1010101 1010100 1010101 1010100 100111 1110101 110101 110101 1010101 1010111 1010101 1111111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 72
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
kitty, kate, not, didn
