This is an analysis of A New Hymn by Katherine Mansfield.

Sing a song of men's pyjamas,
Half-past-six has got a pair,…

Read full poem

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa XbXb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 10101100 1111101 11100010 1110101 10101010 1111001 11111010 10011111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

i

Anaphora

and, i