This is an analysis of Spring Will Come by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay.

SPRING will come to help me: she'll be back again,
Back with the soft sun, the sun I knew before.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abba cddc dccd eeeeXceec
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,9,
  • Metre: 010101110101 10011011101 1010110100111 101110010101 010101110101 10111110101 111010111101 1010101010101 101001110101 10111011101 101010110101 110111110111 101001001101 11101110101 110001100101 1010111010011 10001011010111 0110101111010 11101011101010 111110111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

be, she, to

Epiphora

it

Anadiplosis

low