This is an analysis of The Watcher by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay.

THE long road and the low shore, a sail against the sky,
The ache in my heart's core, and hope so hard to die--…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb
  • Stanza lengths: 3,3,
  • Metre: 0111011010101 010111111101 111011110111 011101110101 010111011111 1110111100101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 6

Repeated words/phrases

and, long

Anaphora

the