This is an analysis of To - - by Henry Kendall.
AH, often do I wait and watch,
And look up, straining through the Real…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef egeg chch icic hjhX hkhkXjhjh
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11011111 11110101 01011101 11001101 11110101 11011101 11010011 11010101 11010101 11011101 11110101 11011001 11110101 11110101 11011111 11111111 11011101 01011101 10010101 011100101 11010101 11111111 11110101 11110101 11000101 11010101 01111101 01010100 110101001 11110101 01110101 11010101 11011111 01110101 11000101 11011101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
and, she
