This is an analysis of The Nancy's Pride by Bliss William Carman.
ON the long slow heave of a lazy sea,
To the flap of an idle sail,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcb defe gbhb dchc ccXc digi daaa bafa dcfc hXaj CbCb CjCj jcdc fbgb fkXk acXc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1011100101 00101101 010111101 10101101 111110101 0010101 00101010 011001 110110101 1010101 110010101 1100101 110000101 100101 010010101 00100101 101110111 1110101 101010110 0110101 101010101 0010101 10100111001 110111 111010101 1010101 1011100101 110101 1100110101 1010100 111010100 110101 010110111 0101001 11110110101 10100101 01010101 00100110 001011101 1010001 111110101 00100101 1010010101 1100101 111110101 00101101 1010010101 111101 101010101 010001 10011001 1011011 1011100111 1110101 10110101 0100111 011110101 0010011 10110111 1100101 100011101 1010101 1010111101 0010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 16
- Lines: 64
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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