This is an analysis of St. Margaret's Eve by William Allingham.
Saint Margaret's Eve it did befall,
The waves roll so gayly O,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aBaB cBcB XBXB XBXB XBXB dBdB XBXB eBeB cBcB dBdB fBfB
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 110010001 0111101 01110101 111 110111111 0111101 10110001001 111 01111101 0111101 11010110010 111 10110101 0111101 110101110 111 01110101 0111101 100010001 111 011101001 0111101 11010101 111 11111111 0111101 11111101 111 110100101 0111101 011111001 111 11111101 0111101 110010111 111 11111101 0111101 1101111 111 1110101 0111101 11011101 111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
love
Anaphora
the
