This is an analysis of A Fine Day by Katherine Mansfield.

After all the rain, the sun
Shines on hill and grassy mead;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbb XXaX accc XaXa bded aecX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1010101 1111101 1000101 1110101 1011011 1110111 111111 101011100 1010101 1010101 100101 1010111 10100001 0110001 1010111 1010111 1011101 1010101 1010101 1000101 1010101 0011111 101101010 111110000
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

sun, you

Anaphora

dew, thank