This is an analysis of My Grief On The Sea by Douglas Hyde.

MY grief on the sea,
How the waves of it roll!…

Browse poems by Douglas Hyde

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd bXXd XeXe Xaea afXf
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11101 101001 111011 101011 010010 01101 0011010 01001 111110 11110 0010010 11001 011110 11101 11001 101001 1011010 11111 111001 001001 1111011 11001 010110 01011
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

my

Anaphora

his