This is an analysis of The Seamaids’ Music by Ernest Myers.

One moment the boy, as he wander’d by night
Where the far spreading foam in the moonbeam was white,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeee
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11001111011 101101001111 11011101001 01001011001 11011101101 11111001001 101101111001 101011101101 111011011011 11001001001 101001001000 101101001001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

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