Form
The poem consists of five quatrainA stanza in poetry consisting of a group of four lines..
The poem holds no regular rhyme schemeHow words and sounds form a pattern to produce an intended effect for the reader.. This seems appropriate, given the centrality of natural elements within the poem, namely:
- the wind
- the sea
The lack of rhyme schemeHow words and sounds form a pattern to produce an intended effect for the reader. reflects their unpredictable nature within the lines of the poem.
The poem is written in a first personThe 'I' or 'we' used by a narrator who is a participant in a narrative, in contrast to the third person - 'he', 'she' or 'they' - of a narrator who is not directly involved.. Like in 鈥業 Gave You Immortality鈥, the speaker in the poem is the poet himself.
In another similar vein to I Gave You Immortality MacLean addresses the subjectThe person or thing in the sentence that is doing the action. of the poem (in this case the girl of the red-gold hair) directly. This lends a sense of immediacy to the poem, and the emotions contained within it.