This is an analysis of You by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay.

SLANTING rain and a sky of gray,
Drifting mist and a wind astray,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbbb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 10110101 10110101 010100101 1101 10010111 100010101 01011111 1111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

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