This is an analysis of Geraldine by Henry Kendall.
My head is filled with olden rhymes beside this moaning sea,
But many and many a day has gone since I was dear to thee!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccccddcc eeffcc
- Stanza lengths: 12,6,
- Metre: 11010101010101 1101100111111101 11110101111101 11110111100001 11010111010101 10110101101001 11111111010101 11110101111101 11010101110101 11110101110101 01010111110101 01110011110001 1111010011100101 100100101110101 11111111010101 11010101110111 111101011100101 110111111100001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
and, i, of, not
Anaphora
i, the
