This is an analysis of A Sea Song by Jean Ingelow.
Old Albion sat on a crag of late,
And sung out—'Ahoy! ahoy!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcCb Xdedccd efefcCf gbgbddX
- Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,7,
- Metre: 1100110101 1111001 11001001001 1001101 11011 10111 1101101 100100100111 0111101 1110100101 10100101 10111 00101 1111111 1011011001 1110111 1100101001 1101111 11011 10111 1011111 110101101111 1011101 10110100111 11101010 11011 11111 1101011
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
to, and
Anaphora
and
