This is an analysis of Sea Song by Katherine Mansfield.
I will think no more of the sea! Of the big green waves And the hollowed
shore, Of the brown rock caves No more, no more Of the swell and the weed…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabXbcabcdedceX
- Stanza lengths: 15,
- Metre: 10111001001111010 1001111111001101 10100110010110111110 010110111001101011 1011010111111001 101011111100111001 111101110110010 11001111011101100 010110110110011100 10110010101001001 110101101000101001 110110111111010 1001011110011001001 11011111001011001 0010010010110111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 15
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, no, more, she, her
