This is an analysis of When My Lover Put The Sea Between Us by Lesbia Harford.

When my lover put the sea between us
And went wandering in Italy…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbXccXcadadaedeXeXe
  • Stanza lengths: 20,
  • Metre: 1110101011 111000100 11101100010 101 1011100110 111000101 11111010010 1001 1011111110 10110111 1001101110 111 1010101011 101010101 1111111011 101 1010101010 100110111 1111111010 111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 20

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