This is an analysis of Tit For Tat by Walter de la Mare.

Have you been catching fish, Tom Noddy?
Have you snared a weeping hare?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa XXXX XbXb XcXc Xdad
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 110101110 1110101 1110110110110 11001001 111101001011 101011011 1100110110110 111110 1011011010 0101111 1100101011 1111 1111001110 011111 01111101101 111011001 11111101110 0011101 1110101101 111110
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

have, you

Anaphora

have, and