This is an analysis of On A Sea Wall by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
I sit upon the old sea wall,
And watch the shimmering sea,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abacab deXede fgfgfg dhihih babacaXfefefe
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,13,
- Metre: 11010111 1101001 11110111 100100 111101001 011101 01010101 110111 1111110110 111101 11110101 111111 01110111 111101 01010111 110101 11010101 111101 10110111 111101 011101110 110101 010101010 0101011 11010101 110101 110110111 110111 11011100 110101 11011111 110111 111110101 110101 10011101 010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
the