This is an analysis of The Wail In The Native Oak by Henry Kendall.
Where the lone creek, chafing nightly in the cold and sad moonshine,
Beats beneath the twisted fern-roots and the drenched and dripping vine;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd ccbbeebb ffggccee ccccccbb cchhcccX iiddjjkk llffffgX ffhXbbhh
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 101110100011111 101010111011101 101111100010101 101010100110101 111011101110101 1001010101010101 1001010101010111 101010101010101 111010111000111 111110101010101 111010111110101 101010101010101 111110100010101 101110101010111 1011101010001010 1110101010100101 011111101110101 111110101111101 111110101111101 101010100011101 011010100010111 1010101000010111 111010101111111 101111101011111 110010111010101 101010101111111 1010111001010111 101010101010111 1111111010100101 1010010101010101 111111101110101 101011101110101 111111101011101 1101010101010101 101010101110101 1110100010001101 101010111111111 010110101011101 101010101110101 101010101010101 101110101011101 111110101010101 111110101010111 111011110010001 101011101010111 101110101010101 111111101110101 111110101111101 111001111110011 101110101010101 111111110110101 111010111010111 100111101010111 111110101000101 1110111101110101 1110101001000111 111110101011101 1001010101000101 101010101010101 1011111011101010 101010101010101 101111101010101 111010101111101 1010111010010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 64
Repeated words/phrases
and, that, i, so, he, round, your
Anaphora
wandering, and, hush, down
