This is an analysis of Camomile Tea by Katherine Mansfield.

Outside the sky is light with stars;
There's a hollow roaring from the sea.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb bbXb XbXb cXXb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11010101 101010001 10110101010 010100101 110110101 00100100101 111110101 1100101001 11100101 010010101 101011001010 01010101 110101101 111101111 10010101 110100101 1101101001 01010100 01111101 11111101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

we, so

Anaphora

the