This is an analysis of Young Sea by Carl Sandburg.

The sea is never still.
It pounds on the shore…

Browse poems by Carl Sandburg

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcd eeXed dbce fcfc gf efXag
  • Stanza lengths: 4,5,4,4,2,5,
  • Metre: 010101 01101 101011 10 011 1100101 1101 0001 0011010 0101 111101 1100100 1101010 1101 11110 11101 100100 110011 101 10111 111 11011 111 111110
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

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