This is an analysis of The Way To Wait by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay.
O WHETHER by the lonesome road that lies across the lea
Or whether by the hill that stoops, rock-shadowed, to the sea,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb ccc ddd
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,
- Metre: 11010101110101 11010111110001 11011101110101 11010011011111 11010011010101 11011101010111 11111101111101 11110111111100 11010101110101 11010101110111 11110101110101 11110101110101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
by, that, to, my, come, not
Anaphora
or, no
