This is an analysis of The Passer-By by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay.
WE are as children in a field at play
Beside a road whose way we do not know,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aba aba cac
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,
- Metre: 1111000111 0101111111 1111010101 0101100101 1101010111 1011110111 1111111111 1001100101 1111011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 9
Repeated words/phrases
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