This is an analysis of Watching by Henry Kendall.
Like a beautiful face looking ever at me
A pure bright moon cometh over the sea;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbaXccddeeffbbggXXhhffii bbcchhjjeeccbbee
- Stanza lengths: 26,16,
- Metre: 101001101011 0111101001 1111011101 11001101101 10100101001 0011101100 11101111111 1010110111 11101110101 100110101 1100101011 11111111101 1100111101 10101101001 110011010110 111111011010 101001111001 1010111101 11001111001 0010100101 101101101101 11101101011 11111111001 110111111 11111111001 00100111111 1101111011 111001001101 011101011011 1101011101 111001011001 1001001011 11101111101 11101011101 11110111001 11101100111 111101111011 10100111101 11101011001 111100101 101010101101 10100110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 42
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, your, you
Anaphora
and
