This is an analysis of Sound Of The Sea, The by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

The sea awoke at midnight from its sleep,
And round the pebbly beaches far and wide…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdecde
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0101111001 1101010111 1101100101 1100100101 0110010001 0111000101 10010000101 1101010101 1101110001 1101001000010 0100011001 1101011111 110101001010 0101110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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