This is an analysis of Written After Swimming From Sestos To Abydos by George Gordon Byron.
If, in the month of dark December,
Leander, who was nightly wont…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaX cdcd XeXe cfcf bXbX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 000101010 01011101 110101010 01111100 01010101 11010101 11011101 11011101 110100101 10010101 11011101 11110101 11110101 010001010 01111101 111111110 11011101 110101111 11011111 11111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
