This is an analysis of The Man With The Wooden Leg by Katherine Mansfield.
There was a man lived quite near us;
He had a wooden leg and a goldfinch in a green cage.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXXbXXaXXacXcbX
- Stanza lengths: 15,
- Metre: 11011111 11010110110011 01110100 1100010101 10101011 0111101001 11101101001011 111101010110 11 111100101 011101 1010101110100 11 111111011 11110010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 15
