This is an analysis of A Little Boy's Dream by Katherine Mansfield.
To and fro, to and fro
In my little boat I go…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AAbbccAA BBddddBB BBeebbBB XdXd
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,4,
- Metre: 011011 0110111 1010101 1011101 1010111 1010101 011011 0110111 111111 10010111 1010101 1110111 0110101 11100011 111111 10010111 101101 0111011 1010011 1000111 1010001 1110101 101101 0111011 111101010 1111101 1000101 1010111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
and, away, from
Anaphora
and
