This is an analysis of The Troubadour by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay.
THE wind blows salt from off the sea
And sweet from where the land lies green;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXbcc adadbb Xebeff Xbabgg XabaaX
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 01110101 11010111 11010111 11111101 11011101 01110101 10110101 11011101 10010111 11100101 11111111 11111101 11110011 11110111 11011111 11011111 11011101 11110111 11010101 11010001 11011101 01010101 11110111 01111101 10111101 10010111 10111101 11011110 11011101 10100100
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
and, she, of, i, no, my
Anaphora
no
