This is an analysis of A Coarse Morning by Augusta Davies Webster.

OH the yellow boisterous sea,
The surging, chafing, murderous sea!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabaBba ccaadcddcXbbaaBbbbb
  • Stanza lengths: 9,19,
  • Metre: 10101001 010101001 1011100111 1001101001 10111101001 11101110 101101111001 0111110101 1110101 1011101 010101011 1011001001 100110111 1001101111 11100111 1111011011 1101110101 1111011 10101011 110101011 1111111101 11101101110 101101111001 10111001 1001011001 11111110101 1101111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 27

Repeated words/phrases

never, came

Anaphora

over, when

Epiphora

sea, foam, dead