Analysis of Jangling Memory
Katherine Mansfield 1888 (Wellington) – 1923 (Fontainebleau, Île-de-France)
Heavens above! here's an old tie of your--
Sea-green dragons stamped on a golden ground.
Ha! Ha! Ha! What children we were in those days.
Do you love me enough to wear it now?
Have you the courage of your pristine glories?
Ha! Ha! Ha! You laugh and shrug your shoulders.
Those were the days when a new tie spelt a fortune:
We wore it in turn--I flaunted it as a waist-belt.
Ha! Ha! Ha! What easily satisfied babies.
"I think I'll turn into a piano duster."
"Give it to me, I'll polish my slippers on it!"
Ha! Ha! Ha! The rag's not worth the dustbin.
"Throw the shabby old thing right out of the window;
Fling it into the faces of other children!"
Ha! Ha! Ha! We laughed and laughed till the tears
came!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001111111 1110110101 11111010011 1111011111 11010111010 1111101110 100110111010 1110111011011 11111001010 111101001010 111111011011 1110111010 101011111010 110101011010 1111101101 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 705 |
Words | 140 |
Sentences | 29 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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