This is an analysis of Voices Of The Air by Katherine Mansfield.

But then there comes that moment rare
When, for no cause that I can find,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eeeeXcdcd
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,9,
  • Metre: 11111101 11111111 01010001 10110111 01111101 11010101 010101001 010110101 01011111 100010101 1010100101 01110111 1110100101 01110111 011011101 01111111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

and, that

Anaphora

the