This is an analysis of To A Sea Bird (Santa Cruz 1869) by Francis Bret Harte.
Sauntering hither on listless wings,
Careless vagabond of the sea,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaaX cbccB dbddB ebeeB
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,
- Metre: 100101101 10100001 101100111 011100111 11011100 101111111 11111101 11101101 100111001 110111101 101100111 11110111 101100101 01101011 110111101 100101101 100101111 11010111 10010111 110111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
that, and, to, on
Anaphora
i
