This is an analysis of The Candle by Katherine Mansfield.

By my bed, on a little round table
The Grandmother placed a candle.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabcddedeacfXXbabfgghcXfXXdXffhbhfg
  • Stanza lengths: 35,
  • Metre: 1111010110 01101010 111110101101 1 11101111101 111100110111 11110111101 11010 10010101001101 0110111101110 1 11101 01111101101 011110111101 1011010111 0110101 11101011111 10 011011100100 110 01011001110010 11 101011010 11111111 11001111 11101110101 10110111001 011001 111111101 11101001 111011001 1100101011001 001001010 11101 01110100101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 35

Repeated words/phrases

i, of

Anaphora

the, no, i