This is an analysis of Now I Am A Plant, A Weed... by Katherine Mansfield.

Now I am a plant, a weed,
Bending and swinging…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcdeabecffdfgghXXXhhhddeeffh
  • Stanza lengths: 29,
  • Metre: 1110101 10110 10101 11110111 10011 1101 11110 11001 0101 0111 01 0111 00101 1111 011011 101001 00101 1011 1010011111 10110111 11100011101 0101111111 101101 1010100101 110010011101 1001110101 1111101111 1011110000101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anaphora

a, she