This is an analysis of When I Was A Bird by Katherine Mansfield.

I climbed up the karaka tree
Into a nest all made of leaves…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbXcadXXcXbdbXXXcaXeec
  • Stanza lengths: 23,
  • Metre: 11101001 00011101 11110 11101111101101 110101111101 10100011001 111010 1011111100110 10010 1110011101 11110 01110110110 101101011001 111111010101 1010110110010 1111001111010 111111111010 101011110 111101101111 110 1010101010 11010101010 111101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 23

Repeated words/phrases

he

Epiphora

matter