This is an analysis of Sand Martins by Jean Ingelow.
I passed an inland-cliff precipitate;
From tiny caves peeped many a soot-black poll;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dede fefe XaXa gege chch adad hehe beXe hbXb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1111110101 01011100111 0101010101 1001010011 0101010111 1001011101 1011010101 1001110111 1101111101 0001111011 0101111101 1011000101 1100011001 1011110101 110011100111 1111010001 1101011001 1101110101 1001000101 1011010101 1001011100 1111011111 11001101001 0101010101 1111110111 01001011101 1101100111 1001010101 11010100111 1101000101 1101000111 0100010101 1110011101 111111101 0101000111 0100010011 0101010111 11011101011 1101111110 01010100111 1110101001 0111110101 1111010111 1011011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
wags, world, and, would
Anaphora
gossip, and
