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…

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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