This is an analysis of The Sea Diver by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
My way is on the bright blue sea,
My sleep upon its rocking tide;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd XeXe fgXg hihi fjfj dfdf babX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11010111 11010101 110111101 11010111 11010101 11010101 11010101 11110101 110010101 01100101 11110111 101010011 11010101 11010101 101111100 010010110 11011111 11010101 11110101 11011111 11011101 01111101 11010101 11110101 11010101 01010101 10010101 01010111 10011111 01011101 11110101 01111100
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
my, when
