This is an analysis of Sleeping Together by Katherine Mansfield.

Sleeping together... how tired you were...
How warm our room... how the firelight spread…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbccdb ceeffc dbb Xgga
  • Stanza lengths: 7,6,3,4,
  • Metre: 1001011010 1111101001 111101111 110101101 1101111011 101001101 01111001011 10010001 1101110101 110100101 101100111 00100101111 110111001 110101101 1001001001 110001101 010010101 111100101 10100101 1001011010
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

how, it