This is an analysis of Sanary by Katherine Mansfield.

Her little hot room looked over the bay
Through a stiff palisade of glinting palms,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc adXdbb efef
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,4,
  • Metre: 0101111001 1011010101 11111001001 011100101 110111011 010111001 010010101 100110101 010100100 110011111 1110111101 10101100111 101101010 11110011 01001001010 11011111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

her, to, and