This is an analysis of On Seeing A Train Start For The Seaside by Norman Rowland Gale.
O might I leave this grassy place
For spreading foam about my feet!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcc adaddd efefgg hhhhee iaiaee
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 11110101 11010111 01010111 01010101 01111101 010011001 11010100 11111101 01010001 01010001 01010101 01110101 11010111 11010101 11111111 01011111 11010111 01111101 01110101 01010100 11010111 11000101 11110110 01010001 10011101 01010101 11110111 01011001 01010110 11011101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
i, and
Anaphora
the, i
