This is an analysis of When As A Lad by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay.
WHEN, as a lad, at break of day
I watched the fishers sail away,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabBcc aaXXaa ddbBdd
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,
- Metre: 11011101 11010101 111101110 010101110 1111 00010101 11110111 11011101 01010111 11101010 1101 11011101 11011111 01110101 111101010 010101110 1111 11010111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
i, searched, so
Anaphora
so
