This is an analysis of Autumn Song by Katherine Mansfield.

Now's the time when children's noses
All become as red as roses…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabb ccddXX eeffcc
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,
  • Metre: 10111010 10111110 10100110 11101010 1010101 1010001 10101010 10101110 10110010 11111010 11111110 10101010 11111110 10011010 00101110 10101010 11111010 11101010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 18

Anaphora

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