This is an analysis of Loneliness by Katherine Mansfield.

Now it is Loneliness who comes at night
Instead of Sleep, to sit beside my bed.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabaX bbcbbc
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 1001001111 0101010111 10101111101 1101010101 1001010111 1111010101 1101111101 1001010100 1011010101 1101010101 0111110111 0101000101 1001010101 1001010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

she, to

Anaphora

she