This is an analysis of At The Seaside by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik.
O SOLITARY shining sea
That ripples in the sun,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab abcb deXe bada fXbc bgXg eaea ecXc dXcX acXc XfcfXafef
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11010101 110001 11110101 1010111 11011101 100111 11010101 110101 11110111 010101 11011000 111101 11011101 1101101 110011101 110101 11011100 1101110 11110101 000101 11100111 110111 10010111 110101 10000111 110111 111100111 010111 01110111 110101 10111101 010101 11111111 011110 01110111 010001 11010101 011111 11011101 010101 11111111 110101 01001111 010011 01010101 010111 11010100 011101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
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