This is an analysis of By The Sea by Emily Dickinson.
I started early, took my dog,
And visited the sea;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xaba XcXc debe XeXe dfcf XeXe
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11010111 110001 0110010 110111 11000101 010101 01010001 010101 11111101 111101 11110111 111101 11111111 110101 0101001 111101 11110101 110101 01110111 110101 01110101 111101 11000101 110101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
my, past, and, as
Anaphora
and
