This is an analysis of The Quarrel by Katherine Mansfield.

Our quarrel seemed a giant thing,
It made the room feel mean and small,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcXX XXdX eXcX dXbe
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11010101 01011111 01010100 01010101 10011111 11101101 10111011101 1100110100 100011111 111111010 11010101 11010100 010111001 1110001110 11010101 10010101 1001101001 1001101100 11001111 11001101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

the, and