This is an analysis of Love Unkind by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay.
OUT upon the bleak hillside, the bleak hillside, he lay--
Her lips were red, and red the stream that slipped his life away.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb XaaXbbb
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,7,
- Metre: 1010111011111 01011101110101 11010001100101 0101110110101 011111100010111 11010101111101 0111110110100 01010111111111 11110111111111 11010101010101 01010101011101 10110101111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
face
Anaphora
the
