This is an analysis of A Girl I Like by Robert Kirkland Kernighan.

She bears a basket on her arm,
Athrough the crowded street ;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ab Xb ab cb de Xe ad cd Xf Xf
  • Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Metre: 11010101 100101 01110101 010101 01011101 011101 01010111 010111 01000101 010101 11010101 010101 110010101 110111 01010101 111101 11110101 010111 11010101 111111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 10
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

her

Anaphora

her, i