This is an analysis of Rafe's Chasm by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.
CAPE ANN, SEPTEMBER SURF. 1882.
White fire upon the gray-green waste of waves,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X abcXXdaecaXedXXfXfbXbebddbb
- Stanza lengths: 1,27,
- Metre: 1101011 11001011101 0110010111 1001010111 0101110101 0101010101 1111111111 1101010101 1001010111 1101010100 0101000111 1101010110 11001010101 1111000101 10110010101 01001010101 1001001 1111000 111011 0100101 00110101 101100 11011101 110111 111101101 10110010101 10110010101 011111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
of, her
Anaphora
the, there
