This is an analysis of The Sailor by Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis.
I'd like to be a sailor - a sailor bold and bluff
Calling out, 'Ship ahoy!' in manly tones and gruff.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaaX
- Stanza lengths: 8,
- Metre: 1100010010111 101110010111 11010101011111 11110101110101 01110111111111 111000100 011101 11
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
and, i'd, to
Anaphora
i'd
