This is an analysis of The Sea Limits by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Consider the sea's listless chime;
Time's self it is, made audible -…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaXca deedccd
  • Stanza lengths: 7,7,
  • Metre: 01001101 11001100 01000111 10010001 00111111 11110111 01110101 11010101 01000101 01011111 10110111 01010001 11000111 11110101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14