This is an analysis of The Ocean by Isaac McLellan.
Morn on the Summer Sea- the breaking light
Is trembling on the mountain's misty height,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccddaa eeffgg gghhbbddgXbbXiiijj eeaXbbkkeehhXjjggee
- Stanza lengths: 4,6,6,18,19,
- Metre: 1101010101 01001010101 1101110101 11001010101 1111010101 11001010101 10010100111 10011010001 1100010111 1011010101 1111011101 1001010101 11010100111 1111110101 0101010101 11110101101 11100010011 1101010111 1111010111 1011011101 11110100111 1101001011 10110100101 1011110101 10110100111 110101010 0111111101 1111011101 10111101100 11010010101 1111010111 11011101001 1111011111 11010011101 1101010101 1111011101 1011010111 0011010100 1111010101 01001000111 0111010101 0101110100 10110010101 1011111101 0101011111 1011001111 1101011001 100011011001 0111110101 1011001101 1111110101 1011010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 52
Repeated words/phrases
and, on, thy
Anaphora
and, the
