This is an analysis of The Sea Spirit by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
I smile o'er the wrinkled blue
Lo! the sea is fair,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaacc deeddcc fggffbb hbbhhee
- Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,7,
- Metre: 11100101 10101 110100101 1010111 0011100101 10101110111 10100100101 110101 011111 011101 11011011 10101101 100100101 101001001001 111101 11001001 101101101 11111111 11101100101 11100100101 001010101 1011101 101111 10111111 11101001 11101101010 111001001001 1011101101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
and, i
Anaphora
and, the
