This is an analysis of There Was A Child Once by Katherine Mansfield.
There was a child once.
He came to play in my garden;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AbcXadaXdbXXbcddXbXeXd AbceX
- Stanza lengths: 22,5,
- Metre: 11011 11010110 1111110 1011111101011 111110010 11101001011 1011001001 11111101 101010101110 1111001001 1111010010101 1100101 011010010 1101011111111 010101 11001110101 010101001 1101000010 1111001011 111010 11010110101110 11011101011 11011 11101010110 111110 11111110 111101101101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 27
Repeated words/phrases
he, i, his, him, we
Anaphora
he, and, i
