This is an analysis of El Extraviado by Alan Seeger.
Over the radiant ridges borne out on the offshore wind,
I have sailed as a butterfly sails whose priming wings unfurled…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbc dbdb aeae aeae fafa
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 100100101110111 111101011110101 10010101100101 0100100111101001 11100101111001001 101001001110100101 10000101100101101 111001111010111111 100100101011001 110111101101111 1001001010100101 101100101100100 10011010111101 0100101000100111 0101001101101111 101001101110100101 110110101101101 00101100100101111 01011111011010111 10100101010101011 100100101011101 11110101111010011 0100111100110101 0100100100100101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 29
Repeated words/phrases
of, and
