This is an analysis of The Long White Seam by Jean Ingelow.
As I came round the harbor buoy,
The lights began to gleam,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XabacAdeXe dfXfbfgahA heXedegaca
- Stanza lengths: 10,10,10,
- Metre: 111101010 010101 11011101 010111 111111101 100111 01100111 11111 01111101 111101 11010101 110111 101010111 1101001 101010101 111101 1100101 011011 110011110 100111 11010101 111001 11111111 1011101 101111111 110101 11110111 10101001 01010111 100111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
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