This is an analysis of Drowned At Sea by Henry Kendall.
Gloomy cliffs, so worn and wasted with the washing of the waves,
Are ye not like giant tombstones round those lonely ocean graves?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeefgghhddddXef Xeeiiddaaaaf
- Stanza lengths: 22,12,
- Metre: 101111100010001 111110111110101 1110101001000101 1001111000100111 111011101110101 10111011000101 1110101011100111 111111101000110 110110 110110 1001 101110101011101 101010111010101 0111101010011101 101010101011001 0111100101110101 111111101110111 101000101000111 101111101000110 110100 110110 1001 11111010 1111111 111010101110111 111001101010101 101010100010101 111111100011101 111010101011101 101010101011101 111011111010110 010110 010110 111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 34
Repeated words/phrases
and, them, like, cried
Anaphora
are, oh, dear, the
