This is an analysis of The Raven's Shadow by William Watson.
Seabird, elemental sprite,
Moulded of the sun and spray-…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcc Xdadee fgfgaa adadbb hbhbee fifidd jbjbee kXkfdd bgXgXf
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 1010101 1000111 1010101 1000101 1010111 1010111 101010 0110001 1111001 1001101 1010101 10000101 1011101 1010101 1010101 1010101 1111110 1110111 1010101 1000111 1010101 1010101 1011011 10100101 1011101 1000110 1000101 10010101 11100111 1011001 1010101 1010111 1001111 1010101 1010111 1010001 1010101 1000111 1011111 10101001 1010101 1011101 1110111 1110111 1010111 101011 1010101 1010111 1010111 1000100 1110100 1001101 1011111 1010001
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 54
Repeated words/phrases
of, and
Anaphora
and, till
