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--…
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

