This is an analysis of The Opal Dream Cave by Katherine Mansfield.

In an opal dream cave I found a fairy:
Her wings were frailer than flower petals,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbXbbcaXXXc
  • Stanza lengths: 13,
  • Metre: 01101111010 0101011010 101111 11110111110 1100010011 11011011010 110100 1100100101 11011 1101100 1010011 11011 101011011
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 13

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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