This is an analysis of The Perfect Playmate by Katharine Tynan.

Roger Charles Noel Bellingham. Before Ypres, March 4th, 1915

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X aabccB ddbeeB ffbggBXddbaaB
  • Stanza lengths: 1,6,6,13,
  • Metre: 1010011010110111 0011110111 1111011101 11110101001 1111010101 1011101101 0011100111 1111010101 11110101001 1001110101 11011010101 1001010011 0011100111 1101111101 11010110111 11010011011 1101001101 0111010001 0011100111 1111010111 010100100101 11011101101 01100010101 00010100101 0011100111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 26

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anaphora

that, who