This is an analysis of A Day In Bed by Katherine Mansfield.

I wish I had not got a cold,
The wind is big and wild,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbc aaaa adad eeee fafa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11111101 010111 11111101 110101 11010101 110101 11110111 110101 11110111 110101 11111111 011101 01011111 110101 11111101 010001 01011101 111111 11010101 110101 11110101 111101 01110101 110001
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

he's, and