This is an analysis of The Storm by Felicia Dorothea Hemans.

Mark vi. 47-51.
Fear was within the tossing bark,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X abab bXbX bcbc dede fbfb bXbX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1111 11010101 110111 11110111 101111 11110011 110011 11111111 001111 10110111 110101 01010111 110101 11010101 110101 11010101 111111 111101010 110101 111101010 1011101 11110101 111010 11010101 111101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 25

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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