This is an analysis of Outward Bound by Charles Harpur.

Away, away she plunges,
With her white sails o’er her spread,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXbXcbcabXbdbdb
  • Stanza lengths: 16,
  • Metre: 0101110 0011101 10101110 1111101 10111010 1010101 10111110 0011001 1111010 1010101 10101010 1110101 10100110 0110101 10101010 1110101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 16