This is an analysis of Sonnet V by Alan Seeger.
A tide of beauty with returning May
Floods the fair city; from warm pavements fume…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaaccadcedce
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0101000101 1011001101 1001110101 0111010111 1001010101 01011101001 1101111101 0111010101 1111111101 1001110101 11100010111 1001111101 0111000101 11011101100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
