This is an analysis of Jangling Memory by Katherine Mansfield.

Heavens above! here's an old tie of your--
Sea-green dragons stamped on a golden ground.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXa Xaa bXa XXb XXaX
  • Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,4,
  • Metre: 1001111101 1110110101 11111111010011 1111010101 11010011010 1111111111110 100110111010 1100111001011 111111110010110 10111000010100 10001110110110 1111110111010 1001011110010 1000010010100 1111111111101 1
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

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