This is an analysis of By The Pacific by Herbert Bashford.
FROM this quaint cabin window I can see
The strange, vague line of ghostly drift-wood, though…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbcabbaddadXc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0011010111 0111010111 1101011111 1101010100 1111011101 1101011101 1101010111 0101001100 1101010011 1111010101 1101010111 1100011101 1111000101 0101100100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14