This is an analysis of The Black Monkey by Katherine Mansfield.
My Babbles has a nasty knack
Of keeping monkeys on her back.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddXeee bbffcc ggbbXX eehhXe
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 11010101 01010101 01111111 11011101 00010111 11010101 11110111 01110101 1110101110 11011101 11110001 11010001 11010101 11010101 11010001 01011101 11010001 00011011 10011111 10010101 11010101 11110111 10010111 1001110100 11010111 10111101 10111101 11010101 100100110 10111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
and, never, oh
