This is an analysis of Always At Sea by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Always at sea I think about the dead.
On barques invisible they seem to sail…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXXabb cXdcee ddddff
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,
- Metre: 1111110101 11001001101 0111100111 1101111111 1111010101 110111 1101110111 0101000110 1101010111 1111010101 1111010101 110111 1111111101 0101110101 1111010101 1101111111 0101010101 011011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 20