This is an analysis of On The Mountain by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay.

THE top of the world and an empty morning,
Mist sweeping in from the dim Outside,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXb ccac XdXd
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 01001111010 110000111 01011010110 011111101 1111111001 001110111 1111111010 111111101 0111111110 100100101 111111011 111101111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

would, to

Anaphora

the, there