This is an analysis of Lost In The Flood by Henry Kendall.
WHEN God drave the ruthless waters
From our cornfields to the sea,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdd cecefgfgg chchXbXbb iaiabebee
- Stanza lengths: 9,9,9,9,
- Metre: 11101010 0111001 11111110 1111101 10101110 1111101 10111010 1010001 0011101 11111110 1111111 01101110 0111111 10101010 1111111 10111010 1110101 1110101 10111110 1010101 10111010 1010111 11111010 1011111 10101010 1110101 1010101 10111010 1011101 01101110 1010101 10111011 1010111 00101111 1111111 1011111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
her, and, of
Epiphora
child, speech, way, wait
