This is an analysis of Rose Dolores by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay.
THE moan of Rose Dolores, she made her plaint to me,
'My hair is lifted by the wind that sweeps in from the sea;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaX bbX aaX ccX ddX eee XaX
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Metre: 0101010110101 11010101110001 11010111110111 1011010101101 110101111100011 11101101110101 0101010110111 11011111110001 11010101010001 1011010101111 11010110100101 111101011001010 0101010110111 11100101111111 11111111111101 1011010110101 11010101010101 11111111111101 0101010111100 11011111010101 11111001110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 21
Repeated words/phrases
and, thy, fisher's