This is an analysis of Westward by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.
My thoughts like waves creep up, creep on,
How patient is the sea!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xaaa XaXa
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,
- Metre: 11111111 110001 11110111 100111 01011101 111110 11110101 01101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 9
Anaphora
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